A long time ago I wrote about the kind of daughter-in-law I felt that MIL wanted and the impossibility of her existence. I was thinking today about the flip side - that I also had an image of the MIL I wanted and that she probably wouldn’t exist in real life. Sometimes, when I read others’

I’ve added The Inter-faith Marriage Network web site to the blogroll. From their web site: We’re in mixed marriages ourselves and we’ve listened to many other people in interfaith, intercultural and international relationships. We started the Interfaith Marriage Project because we realized that very little help or information was available for people like us, and couples

It astounds me as to the number of people of Indian origin who work in the financial districts of London & New York. We all know of people like Anshu Jain of Deutsche Bank who have done fantastically well to take the best of their Indian heritage and mix it up with the hard headedness found

Last week, my firm (www.saffronchase.com) launched the India Briefing Centre - a service that can help British firms crack India. The first being bespoke sectoral briefings and training programmes that can provide executives looking to engage with India, the vital information they require to make decisions. Whilst the focus is on briefings, our mainstay is delivering

Thursday night… I´m tired But I have two students and they´re photographers. Nina Kourea is from Australia she´s here after NYC experience and Kate Stanworth is from England she´s Photo Editor and she´s also writing the visual arts section of “The argentimes” a free English-language newspaper aimed at the youth market in Buenos Aires. They invited me

A new Euro-Med University is formally launched on 9 June in Slovenia.    Based in Piran, on the Adriatic coastline, the University will initially be developed by the Centre for Euro-Med Studies.  Universities and research insitutes are invited to become partner insitutions.  So far , from the UK, the Universities of Westminister, Cambridge and Bristol have expressed interest. More details

It is 30 years since the publication of Edward Said’s book “Orientalism”.  It revolutionised academic studies and attitudes.  Have his arguments stood the test of time?   How do they relate to the present?  His underlying ideas are at the heart of discussion today about inter-cultural dialogue, the rationale of the Anna Lindh Foundation. In London, and later this

Many moons ago on this blog, there was a big discussion about the movie the Namesake. Lots of differing opinions on whether the white girl in the film sucked, or the Indian boyfriend sucked harder - it was a toss-up. I think most of the people who thought the white girl sucked for being clueless

This study assesses whether remotely located pairs of people working on a collaborative task benefit from using video, looking in particular at people for whom communication is stressed. In this study, we extend the research on video-mediated communication to the domain of non-native speaker interactions. Thirty-six pairs performed a map task using either audio-only or

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)    On the occasion of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, a “lame of Peace”will travel from the Mediterranean Sea into the depths of Asia, Beijing and Moscow. Motorcyclists participating in the “Routes of the Olive Tree” initiative, a programme of cultural journeys and activities inspired by the olive tree,  will ride on the