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Indian connection to top 100 global thinkers of 2010
Shiv Shankar Menon for dragging India out of its global non-alignment. India's national security advisor appears 18th on the list that comprises 100 global thinkers.
India famously clung to its aloof foreign policy for years after the end of the Cold War rendered meaningless the concept of non-alignment that it had long embraced. A career diplomat, Menon has helped break New Delhi of this habit, drawing India closer to the West.
Menon was a key player in negotiating a civilian nuclear deal with the United States, which cemented India's cooperation on non-proliferation issues with the international community.
Today, as Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's foreign-policy guru, he is building on that breakthrough to expand US-India ties on a wide array of issues, including efforts to fight the global economic recession, reports Foreign Policy.
In a recent visit to Washington, he reminded his audience that US exports to India have grown faster over the last five years than those to any other major trading partner.
Raghuram Rajan is ranked 26th for his spirited debate over the roots of the global financial meltdown. He shares this position with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.
A former International Monetary Fund chief economist and now a finance professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, Rajan has fought a running battle across the pages of a half-dozen publications over the causes of the financial crisis, according to Foreign Policy.
Rajan, author of this year's influential Fault Lines, argues that Krugman understates the role mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played in the crisis because their culpability is inconvenient for Krugman's big-government liberalism. "US policies encouraged over-consumption and over-borrowing," he wrote on ForeignPolicy.com, "and unless we understand where these policies came from, we have no hope of addressing the causes of this crisis."
Kishore Mahbubani for being the voice of a new Asian century appears 92 on the list. There have been few more ardent evangelists for Asia's growing role on the world stage than Mahbubani. And with the advent of the Great Recession, the career-diplomat-cum-scholar is attracting an ever-wider audience:
The collapse of the Western financial system "has accelerated the end of the era of Western domination of world history," writes this dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.
Fareed Zakaria, the editor at large of Time, New York, Zakaria's great gift to the US policy debate has been his insistence that Americans need to get over themselves -- that the future world order will be dominated by new emerging powers along with old leaders as China and India take their place at the table, writes Foreign Policy.
His predictions have proved prescient, and particularly since the publication of his timely 2008 book, The Post-American World, the Indian-born Zakaria has come to symbolise not only the rise of the rest but also a decidedly American determination to deal with it, the magazine says.
Along the way, Zakaria has turned himself into a one-man media brand, with a higher profile than perhaps any other pundit who writes about America's role in the world.
Kamal Kar for doing the world's dirty work is ranked 84th in the list drawn by Foreign Policy.
A sanitation expert from India, Kar spends much of his time thinking about something that many of us would rather not: where and how people poop.
In Bangladesh, where defecating indoors had been strictly taboo, he suggests such tactics as giving children whistles to blow whenever they see someone defecating outside -- a sort of constructive peer pressure.
And it works. After Bangladesh adopted Kar's ideas, latrine coverage skyrocketed from just 33 per cent in 2003 to more than 70 per cent today. Kar's "community-led total sanitation" method is now at work in 39 countries around the world.
Shiv Shankar Menon for dragging India out of its global non-alignment. India's national security advisor appears 18th on the list that comprises 100 global thinkers.
India famously clung to its aloof foreign policy for years after the end of the Cold War rendered meaningless the concept of non-alignment that it had long embraced. A career diplomat, Menon has helped break New Delhi of this habit, drawing India closer to the West.
Menon was a key player in negotiating a civilian nuclear deal with the United States, which cemented India's cooperation on non-proliferation issues with the international community.
Today, as Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh's foreign-policy guru, he is building on that breakthrough to expand US-India ties on a wide array of issues, including efforts to fight the global economic recession, reports Foreign Policy.
In a recent visit to Washington, he reminded his audience that US exports to India have grown faster over the last five years than those to any other major trading partner.
Raghuram Rajan is ranked 26th for his spirited debate over the roots of the global financial meltdown. He shares this position with Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.
A former International Monetary Fund chief economist and now a finance professor at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, Rajan has fought a running battle across the pages of a half-dozen publications over the causes of the financial crisis, according to Foreign Policy.
Rajan, author of this year's influential Fault Lines, argues that Krugman understates the role mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac played in the crisis because their culpability is inconvenient for Krugman's big-government liberalism. "US policies encouraged over-consumption and over-borrowing," he wrote on ForeignPolicy.com, "and unless we understand where these policies came from, we have no hope of addressing the causes of this crisis."
Kishore Mahbubani for being the voice of a new Asian century appears 92 on the list. There have been few more ardent evangelists for Asia's growing role on the world stage than Mahbubani. And with the advent of the Great Recession, the career-diplomat-cum-scholar is attracting an ever-wider audience:
The collapse of the Western financial system "has accelerated the end of the era of Western domination of world history," writes this dean of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore.
Fareed Zakaria, the editor at large of Time, New York, Zakaria's great gift to the US policy debate has been his insistence that Americans need to get over themselves -- that the future world order will be dominated by new emerging powers along with old leaders as China and India take their place at the table, writes Foreign Policy.
His predictions have proved prescient, and particularly since the publication of his timely 2008 book, The Post-American World, the Indian-born Zakaria has come to symbolise not only the rise of the rest but also a decidedly American determination to deal with it, the magazine says.
Along the way, Zakaria has turned himself into a one-man media brand, with a higher profile than perhaps any other pundit who writes about America's role in the world.
Kamal Kar for doing the world's dirty work is ranked 84th in the list drawn by Foreign Policy.
A sanitation expert from India, Kar spends much of his time thinking about something that many of us would rather not: where and how people poop.
In Bangladesh, where defecating indoors had been strictly taboo, he suggests such tactics as giving children whistles to blow whenever they see someone defecating outside -- a sort of constructive peer pressure.
And it works. After Bangladesh adopted Kar's ideas, latrine coverage skyrocketed from just 33 per cent in 2003 to more than 70 per cent today. Kar's "community-led total sanitation" method is now at work in 39 countries around the world.
