Re: Who is Valson Thampu? Is he an IPI member?

[prabhu.guptara@ny.ubs.com]

     Ladies and Gentlemen

     Mr Thampu is on the staff of St Stephen's College in Delhi - for
those
     who don't know, one of our premier educational institutions in
India.

     And yes, I do hope that he will be involved in IPI.

     I was not so much "endorsing" the material, as passing it on for
     information.

     Whether or not he chooses to be involved in IPI does not add to or
     take away from the value of the material itself.


     Professor Prabhu Guptara
     Director, Executive and Organisational Development
     Wolfsberg Executive Development Centre
     (A subsidiary of UBS AG)
     CH-8272 Ermatingen
     Switzerland
     Tel: +41.71.663.5605
     Fax: +41.71.663.5594
     e-mail: prabhu.guptara@ubs.com



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Subject: Re: Who is Valson Thampu?  Is he an IPI member?
Author:  sroy (sroy@vgsom.iitkgp.ernet.in) at nyuxuu
Date:    02.12.98 09:35


Is Mr. Valson Thampu a member of IPI?  If so, he can presumably write
himself.   If not, perhaps Prof. Guptara wishes him to be.   I am not
sure
of the value of celebrity endorsements of this sort otherwise.
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From: prabhu.guptara@ny.ubs.com <prabhu.guptara@ny.ubs.com>
To: debate@indiapolicy.org <debate@indiapolicy.org>
Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 09:32
Subject: PUBLIC: Article on recent elections...


>     Ladies and Gentlemen
>
>     The following is an article which may interest you.
>
>
>     Professor Prabhu Guptara
>     Director, Organisational and Executive Development
>     Wolfsberg Executive Development Centre
>     (a subsidiary of UBS AG)
>     CH-8272 Ermatingen
>     Switzerland
>     Tel: + 41.71.663.5605
>     Fax: +41.71.663.5590
>     e-mail: prabhu.guptara@ubs.com
>
>
>
>
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>Subject: PUBLIC: Article
>Author:  traci (traci@giasdl01.vsnl.net.in) at zhux
>Date:    01.12.97 00:36
>
>
>A MASSIVE AND MERCILESS VERDICT
>Assembly elections and what they reveal
>
>Valson Thampu
>
>
>Yet another explosion. This time not just in the deserts of Rajasthan.
>Buddha has smiled again. But has smiled, it seems, on his own and out
of
>
>place and protocol. The smile seems tinged with a touch of sarcasm. It
>is beginning to be really worrisome: this cosmic smile that stings
>deeper than demonic laughter, and it thunders with a deafening silence
>in the corridors of power. What does this portend?
>
> First, the assembly elections were not fought on the basis of any
>ideology, but on the issue of governance. The message is loud and clear


>that the well being of people is the central democratic issue, and the
>fanciest of gimmicks cannot sideline it.  This is not a new discovery,
>but an important re-discovery of a basic tenet in the democratic creed.


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