Kavery nambisan biography of barack obama

One cannot help wonder whether the number of “China books” is a lagging or leading indicator of the country’s importance in world affairs. While some of these books communicate more about the author than China, Jeremy Garlick’s Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption is more realpolitik than politics, more about what works and what doesn’t than who’s right or wrong.

Instead of engaging in values-based polemic, I hope the data-driven analysis in this book will present readers with a critical perspective contrasting China and the West’s respective approaches to global development and international affairs. The intention is to show how China’s approach is distinct from the West’s, and how this approach gives the PRC certain advantages when trying to forge a route through the complex and turbulent times in which we live.

And at just about 150 pages, it’s refreshingly short and to the point.

In brief, Garlick argues that China has its policy act together while the West doesn’t and that, as a result, China has the West on the hop, at least internationally. Garlick cuts through much of the chaff that pervades current commentary: while there is, for example, difference of opinion about how successful the Belt and Road really is, there can be little debate that it has changed the playing field in significant and unprecedented ways.

Garlick puts what he sees as the West’s current policy incoherence down to the usual suspects: hubris, complacency, policy swings resulting from democratic elections, and political fragmentation between the US and Europe (and within the EU). And he credits China’s success (although it might be better to call it relative success) to the opposite: that China’s political set-up allows it, in short, to engage in long-term planning and avoid many of the slings and arrows of public pressure.

These observations have been made before; Garlick makes them with emphasis. And while descriptively th

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• Ragavi. S. R Postgraduate Student of English Bishop Heber College (Autonomous) Tiruchirappalli, India
• J. Edwin Moses Assistant Professor Department of English Bishop Heber College (Autonomous) Tiruchirappalli, India

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Abstract

Ecofeminism is a term that shows the relationship between Ecology and Feminism. It is a branch of Ecocriticism which studies how the oppression of women is interlinked with nature. Naturally the “Land” is compared to a Feminine gender as it is fertile and nurtures the life similar to a female who nurtures her family and finally owned by a male as a property. Ecofeminism on the other hand offers a way of thinking which encourages interconnectedness of people with the environment and addressing the oppression and marginalization of women alongside. This paper focuses on how the protagonist Rajakumari is associated with nature and also about her psychological growth interlinked with the environment and with the other characters in Kavery Nambisan’s A Town Like Ours. The researcher will further critique the condition of Indian women under the patriarchy and how anthropocentric activities in the development process affect nature and humans.

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New York, October 22
Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has established a double digit lead over his Republican rival John McCain just two weeks ahead of crucial elections, a just released poll says.

The Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll found that 52 per cent voters favour Obama against 42 per cent who support McCain, showing a four per cent increase since the poll two weeks ago. The poll has a margin of error plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.

The poll says that a growing number of voters said that they were comfortable with the Democrat’s values, background and ability to serve as commander-in-chief.

It’s the largest lead in the Journal/NBC poll so far, and represents a steady climb for Senator Obama since early September, when the political conventions concluded with the candidates in a statistical tie.

“Voters have reached a comfort level with Barack Obama,” said Peter D Hart, a Democratic pollster who conducts the poll with Republican Neil Newhouse.

Though most voters polled said that McCain is better prepared for the White House than the first-term Obama, there are increasing concerns about the readiness of McCain’s running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the poll showed.

The race, the Journal said, has rested largely on the question of whether voters could get comfortable with Obama, the first African-American to run on a major party ticket, and one who has been on the national political scene for just a few years.

McCain has worked to stoke concerns about Obama’s past and his qualifications, raising questions about his rival’s character and his association with 1960s-era radical William Ayers. The new poll suggests that these attacks haven’t worked.

The poll found that Obama now holds a 12-percentage-point advantage with independents, a group both sides have fiercely sought.

Obama leads suburban voters by 12 percentage points, up from two points two weeks ago. He leads among older voters, those over 65-years-old, by nine points, e

In Ben Bland’s political biography Man of Contradictions: Joko Widodo and the Struggle to Remake Indonesia, the current president of Indonesia starts out as a political outsider but becomes part of the establishment. The unanswered question is: once Jokowi, as he is known, came under more scrutiny, did the less attractive aspects of his leadership style become evident—or was he changed by power? Jokowi’s vision is that the world’s fourth most populous nation will be a developed country and the fourth largest economy by 2045. Bland, wisely, doesn’t make a final judgement on the man who will be in power until 2024.

Since the fall of the dictator General Suharto in 1998, Indonesian politics has not captured much attention. Jokowi changed this with his rags to riches story, but those hoping for his presidency to be a bastion of democracy, free trade and a counterbalance to China in the region have been disappointed. Jokowi, with his personal charm, has created opportunities for foreign investment, however he will not do away with all protectionist policies. In foreign policy he is not interested in abstract geopolitics. Indonesia and China have disputes in the South China Sea, but he is not going to really stand up to China as long as they keep investing.

Jokowi grew up in a riverside shack in Solo, a city in Central Java: an extraordinary place to begin a journey to becoming president. Indonesian politics, as in many if not most other places, have traditionally been controlled by a tight group of elites. Jokowi was a successful furniture maker in Solo before being elected mayor in 2005. It was his personal touch as a leader that caught people’s attention.

‘Even when the road was full of mud, he still came to visit us,’ one housewife told me as she and a friend showed me their new homes, small and basic but solid and accompanied by all-important land ownership certificates.

After his success in Solo, established political players broug