Marie-Lou Fernandes, 12.25.2010

Former Deputy Commissioner of Police, Mumbai City

It's been a month since the first set of Radia tapes was published by Open and Outlook. All through, these two exemplary publications have maintained ...

Josh Ozersky, 12.24.2010

Food Columinst

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Kate Saunders, 12.23.2010

Communications Director for the International Campaign for Tibet

A WikiLeaks cable says the Dalai Lama advocated for the the U.S. to shift its focus to climate change in Tibet. It is a message that China's top leader Hu Jintao, needs to hear.

Thor Halvorssen, 12.23.2010

President, Human Rights Foundation

Just as Nelson Mandela symbolized the struggle for individual rights and equality in South Africa, so Liu Xiaobo embodies the struggle for freedom of expression and for civil and political rights in China.

Pilar Jennings, Ph.D., 12.23.2010

Researcher, Clinical aspects of Buddhism

Buddhism and psychoanalysis have begun to cultivate a true partnership that seems to be ushering in wellness on a new scale.

Vamsee Juluri, 12.22.2010

USF professor and author of The Mythologist

Long before America rearranged my name into its present form, I was known largely as Jamuna koduku. Jamuna's son. Not that my name was unknown. To thi...

Melanie Nayer, 12.22.2010

Hotel reviewer, Luxury travel

In China, the celebration of Christmas is more commercial than religious, but still manifests the same reaction: a time to embrace family and friends, and maybe even give a gift or two.

Steve McSwain, 12.22.2010

Speaker, thinker, activist and spiritual teacher; author, 'The Enoch Factor: The Sacred Art of Knowing God'

Rather than mutually respecting and affirming the one and only thing all religions share in common, religious leaders become preoccupied with what distinguishes them in terms of their beliefs, doctrines, viewpoints and so on

Robert Scheer, 12.22.2010

Editor of Truthdig.com, Author, 'The Great American Stickup'

One of "the best and the brightest" died last week, and in Richard Holbrooke we had a perfect example of the dark mischief to which David Halberstam referred when he authored that ironic label.

Riva Greenberg, 12.22.2010

Author, Diabetes Advocate, Health Coach

Dear Santa, all I'd like this Christmas is for you to take this diabetes away.

John Feffer, 12.21.2010

Co-director, Foreign Policy In Focus

When Ok Chin was a child, her mother brought her to an orphanage. The family was poor, and her mother heard that the girl would get fed and clothed. What happened next was unexpected.

Doug Lieblich, 12.21.2010

Humorist

Some people call me a Grinch; others call me a Scrooge. Those people have been killed.

Nancy Ruhling, 12.21.2010

Author of "Astoria Characters"

When Irina Kom parts the exotic pink and gold silk curtain to reveal her living room-cum-bedroom-cum-dance studio, the incense refreshes the senses like a walk in a spring shower.

Lev Raphael, 12.21.2010

Award-winning author

Books don't have to have wizards to make magic or cast a spell. Over the last decade, these books have haunted and inspired me, made me proud to be a writer, glad to be a reviewer.

Nikolas Kozloff, 12.21.2010

Author, "Revolution! South America and the Rise of the New Left"

Message to Dalai Lama: maybe it is time to stop the unproductive, backroom parlor games with the U.S. and get out in front on the climate change issue.

Virginia M. Moncrieff, 12.21.2010

Journalist

The growing discontent with the NLD has been obvious inside Burma for most of the past decade. It came to light internationally when, during the November elections, desperate discussions were held about the official boycott.

Daniel Wagner, 12.22.2010

Managing Director, Country Risk Solutions

International companies have long believed that they must have a presence in China because they consider its 1.3 billion people to be potential consumers. But research raises question about who the country's middle class really are and the true meaning of their disposable income.

Kavita Krishnan, 12.21.2010

Secretary, All India Progressive Women’s Association

From the perspective of many women in India who find the most brutal of rapists going free, the idea of a man being hunted down by Interpol on charges which are as complex and ambiguous as those in the Julian Assange case is disturbing.

Chip Conley, 12.20.2010

Founder and CEO, Joie de Vivre Hospitality

'Tis the time of the year to reflect and project. I'm going to take my cue from the most famous management theorist of all time, Peter Drucker, adopt two practices into my professional and personal life.

John Feffer, 12.20.2010

Co-director, Foreign Policy In Focus

Rather than waiting patiently for reunification to take place through negotiations, the South Korean Lee Myoung-bak administration wants to accelerate the process, by force if necessary.

Rep. Mike Honda, 12.20.2010

Represents the 15th Congressional District of California in the U.S. House

One of the greatest lessons to be learned from the Program for International Student Assessment report released this month is that equity matters.