New Delhi/IBNS: The first day of the two-day International seminar on Ramayana in SouthEast Asia, organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) in Delhi saw scholars exchanging views on the Indian epic Ramayana and its influence on South East Asian countries.
Amit Roy | | Published 15.05.21, 12:07 AM
All the world’s a stage for Baroness Shriti Vadera, who has played many parts in her 58 years, the latest being the chairperson of the Royal Shakespeare Company, ‘the first woman and first person of colour’ to be appointed to the post. She was born into a Gujarati family in Uganda, did her schooling in India and England, read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford, went into the City, served as a minister under Gordon Brown and helped the then prime minister tackle the 2008 financial crisis, became chairperson of Santander, United Kingdom, the first woman to head a British bank, and is currently the chairperson of the insurance giant, Prudential plc. I have known the no-nonsense Shriti for quite a long time as one of the judges of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award (“of course, I read