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Sixth Course, Session 4: Jaswant Singh
I’m left smiling at the irony that in India I’d almost never be in the same room as the leader of the BJP but here I get to sit across the table from him and eat lunch. Jaswant Singh was here last...
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Sixth Course, Session 5: Pascal Lamy
Addressing a full-capacity Forum audience, Pascal Lamy began by rambling on metaphysically about the etymology of governance (Latin, ‘rudder’) and current trends in global governance when a bearded man...
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Sixth Course, Session 6: General Abizaid
The “Mad Arab” came, saw and appeared to urgently need something to conquer. He wore his combat fatigues because, he said, after days of testifying before Congress, there was too much blood on his...
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Sixth Course, Session 7: Ramachandra Guha
Why does Ram Guha qualify for a ‘sixth course’ when recent big-wig visitors like Steven Colbert(entertaining but insubstantial) and John Negroponte (dull and insubstantial) do not? Because Guha, as...
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Sixth Course, Session 8: Ishmael Beah, Samantha Power, Dominique Villepin
This semester – which, thankfully, ended last week – was rather more manic than the last one, which is why my blogging became even more infrequent than usual. But that’s not to say the usual line-up of...
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Sixth Course, Session 9: Sergio Fajardo
I was always going to be spending this summer in Bogota; for more than a year now, the universe has seemed to be conspiring to make that happen. But if anyone could have provided the inspiration to...
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Sixth Course, Session 10: Mohammed Yunus
Often, superstar speakers can be frustrating because their high profile means they have to be carefully diplomatic, and hence they don’t say anything interesting. Even then though, it’s not what they...
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Sixth Course, Session 11: P. Chidambaram
India’s current Finance Minister visited the Harvard Business School last week and delivered a boring recitation of India’s economic woes and a list of problems the country needs to fix in order to...
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Sixth Course, Session 12: Mikhail Gorbachev & Sakena Yacoobi
Late last Fall, we were graced by contrasting lectures in different parts of the school on the same night. One by a world famous Nobel Laureate credited with ending the Cold War and the other by a...
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Sixth Course, Session 13: John Howard
Australia has always had a hold on me, for reasons I still can’t fully name. And for nearly all my adult life, the man in charge of Australia has been John Howard. Even though I mostly disagree with...
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