Are China and India Converging?
Mention China and India to economists and their first thought will be rapid growth. Their second thought might be how differently the two economies are achieving this: China through manufacturing, ...
Anthony Shadid on Qatar
Pulitzer Prize winner and “New York Times” Foreign Correspondent talks to TGD about this very small but extraordinarily wealthy country’s increasing influence in the Middle East and its aggressive foreign ...
Sao Paulo’s “Lado Centro”
Lado Centro is home to many recording studios, a growing group of small theaters and music venues catering to every imaginable taste. Most of the people in the music scene ...
Why Hollande Will Win in 2012
Although dubbed "Monsieur Ordinary" by the Guardian, presidential candidate François Hollande has a cool head, an extremely fine wit and vast political experience. It would be an error to ...
Arts & Culture
Renaissance Portraits
Following a sellout exhibition at the Bode Museum in Berlin, "Renaissance Portraits" has moved to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Alessandra Quattrocchi survived the queues to ...
Travel Writing
Stromboli: Under the Volcano
Despite being an active volcano, Stromboli, one of the Aeolian islands just north of Sicily, is a popular summer destination. ...
Travel Writing
Evliya Çelebi: an Ottoman Traveller
Known variously as a Turkish Pepys, a Muslim Montaigne and an Ottoman Herodotus, 17th century traveller, Evliya Çelebi, recounts his ...















