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India's e-commerce boom lures Wharton MBAs back home
Chadha •With Asian economies becoming stronger, MNCs expanding operations here and Indians turning to entrepreneurship, many are returning after getting the much-sought-after MBA certificates abroad.
Modi disinvite: Melbourne academics condemn protests against Wharton professors
Fp Editors •Academics in Melbourne have backed the professors who protested against Modi's speech at the Wharton India Economic Forum.
Wharton India Economic Forum restricts media coverage of event
Fp Archives •The student-run WIEF did not give reasons for such an unprecedented decision, except for confirming that no media outlet would be allowed to cover the day-long event in Philadelphia on 23 March.
The Left-liberal 'idea of India' is mere idea and no India
Rajeev •The Left's so-called ‘Idea of India’ includes no loyalty to India per se, but only some vague slogans about ‘inclusiveness’.
Wharton's Modi fiasco: Indian origin doctor withdraws from summit
Fp Archives •A noted Indian-American physician has withdrawn from the annual Wharton India Economic Forum in the wake the organiser's decision to cancel a key-note address by Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
How Modi has the professors of UPenn divided
Fp Staff •Two interviews of UPenn professors published in New York Times India Ink suggests that the university is divided on the Modi issue.
Wharton hijack and the new sepoys of colonialism
Rajiv •The Indian professors who got Modi's address cancelled specialise in scholarship criticising colonialism, but they they are serving similar American policies on neo-colonial interventions in India.
Modi ignores Wharton snub, flits to a new US audience
Choudhury •Modi is expected to fill two auditoriums in New Jersey and Chicago when he gives a live speech to the Indian diaspora organised by the US-based members of the Overseas Friends of BJP.
Hexaware Tech also withdraws sponsorship for Wharton event
Fp Archives •After Adani group, Hexaware Technologies, another Indian company, today withdrew sponsorship for the Wharton India Economic Forum (WIEF) and company chairman Atul Nishar opted out of the event.
Was UPenn President behind the Wharton decision to drop Modi?
Fp Staff •The decision to withdraw Narendra Modi as a keynote speaker at the Wharton India Economic Forum was no easy one. The President of University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Amy Gutmann, whose family fled Nazi Germany, could have influenced the decision.