Vishakha N. Desai is President of the Asia Society.
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Vishakha N. Desai
Commentaries by Vishakha N. Desai
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The Mythical Rise of Asian Americans
NEW YORK – The Pew Center’s recent report “The Rise of Asian Americans,” which shows that Asians, not Latinos, comprise the largest group of…
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Power to Asia’s Women
SHANGHAI – Everyone’s eyes on are Asia’s rise. China, once dismissed as poor and backward, is now the world’s second-largest economy. India,…
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Asian Women on Top
NEW YORK – India’s Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka’s Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto, Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, Corazon Aquino …
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Educating Americans about Muslim Voices
NEW YORK – President Barack Obama has extended an open hand of friendship in his landmark Cairo speech to the Muslim world – seeking to enga…
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The Key to Stability in South Asia
NEW YORK – Few places in the world offer as daunting a set of challenges as South Asia. A narcotics-fueled insurgency threatens newly democr…
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Obama’s Asian Vision
NEW YORK – Now that Barack Obama has made history by being elected President of the United States, people throughout the Asia-Pacific region…
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A New Tang Dynasty?
On August 8, 2008, the world watched with awe the amazing spectacle of the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing. We saw the electronic unrol…
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Asia’s Questions for America’s Next President
NEW YORK – In one of the longest American Presidential campaigns in history, neither party has addressed one of the most critical issues of …
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Another Buddha Destroyed
NEW YORK -- The world watched in horror when Taliban forces destroyed the monumental Buddha statues in Bamiyan, Afghanistan in 2001.…
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India’s Hillary Clinton?
As Americans debate their readiness to accept a woman such as Hillary Clinton as president, India has already done so, with the election of …
The Mythical Rise of Asian Americans
Ken Peterson: "If hard work was all it took..." Management has nothing to do with education, job skills, hard work, etc. Managers are often the dumbest people in the company,...and the least skilled. Management…
The Mythical Rise of Asian Americans
Chuck Cheese: A better analysis would include workers in the public sector, not just in the corporate world. My casual observation is that you will see many Asians in senior roles in say the regional offices of th…