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19-05-2014, 12:30 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:

This guy resides in Singapore and worked with SPH. He wrote this in 2008 despite the embarrassing TV interview where the old man was asked to step down in 2006.

How do we even compete when they are prepared to go down to this level. Note also the tilt and prominence of Indian luminaries on the top of is list. There goes our culture, our heritage and our identity. In 20 years, the Singapore identity as we know it would be overwhelmed by those from the Philippines, China, India, Myanmar, Vietnam etc.




Vote for Lee Kuan Yew the thinker
Monday, May 5, 2008 By Abhijit Nag

lee_kuan_yew_12-1 Is Lee Kuan Yew one of the foremost thinkers of our time? He is among the top 100 public intellectuals listed by Foreign Policy magazine. It is asking people to choose the world's five foremost thinkers.

So here's a chance to vote for Lee Kuan Yew, the architect of modern Singapore. Will he snort in derision at the words,"intellectual", "thinker"? Hurry, anything to make the old man harrumph! Voting closes on May 15.

I will be most surprised if he does not make the list of the top 20 public intellectuals, based on the people's votes, whose names will be published in the magazine's July-August issue. The only other Southeast Asian on the top 100 list is the Indonesian political analyst Anies Baswedan.

On the other hand, India alone has five:

Economist Amartya Sen
Political psychologist Ashis Nandy
Historian Ramachandra Guha
Environmentalist Sunita Narain
Neuroscientist VS Ramachandran
And that's not counting writer Salman Rushdie, who is listed as a Briton, and journalist Fareed Zakaria, who is listed as an American.

Among other notables also on the list are

Al Gore (US)
Pope Benedict XVI (Germany/Vatican)
Writer Ian Buruma (Britain, Netherlands)
Linguist/radical Noam Chomsky (US)
Novelist JM Coetzee (South Africa)
Biologist and writer Richard Dawkins (Britain)
Biologist and historian Jared Diamond (US)
Economist William Easterly (US)
Writer Umberto Eco (Italy)
Historian Niall Ferguson (Britain)
Journalist Thomas Friedman (US)
Historian Francis Fukuyama (US)
Writer William Gladwell (US)
Novelist Orhan Pamuk (Turkey)
Political scientist Robert Putman (US)
Statesman/playwright Vaclav Havel (Czech Republic)
Journalist Christopher Hitchens (US)
Political scientist Samuel Huntington (US)
Political commentator Robert Kagan
Economist and columnist Paul Krugman (US)
Legal scholar and blogger Lawrence Lessig
Economist and blogger Steven Levitt of Freakonomics fame (US)
Military strategist David Petraeus
Linguist Steven Pinker (Canada/US)
Political scientist Robert Putnam (US)
Economist Michael Spence (US)
Writer Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Economist Jeffrey Sachs (US)
Economist Lawrence Summers (US)
Writer Mario Vargos Llosa (Peru)
Journalist Martin Wolf (Britain)
Economist Muhammad Yunus (Bangladesh)
This is an incomplete list. I have included only names familiar to me.

I bet Lee Kuan Yew is laughing at the fact that the list does not include some of his eminent contemporaries such as… William Safire! And where is Joseph Stiglitz? George Monbiot? And if Al Gore can make the list, it's dumb to leave out Bill Clinton.


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