Innholdsfortegnelse for July 01-08, 2022 i Newsweek International

1991 “Will Americans still be applauding (and voting GOP) if the court keeps on moving to the right—if it severely restricts abortions, abandons the rights of minorities and women…?” Newsweek asked after Thurgood Marshall’s resignation made way for a new justice to be appointed by President George H.W. Bush in 1991. “It is the people Bush will leave behind on the Supreme Court who will be his most enduring legacy,” the magazine wrote. Three decades later, Bush’s appointee Clarence Thomas is still on a court that has moved ever-further right and is poised to overturn Roe v. Wade. 1979 “The best short-term advice for Americans seems to be to save as much energy as possible—and even that might not be enough,” Newsweek said about rising prices of imported oil. The…

I WAS 10 MONTHS OLD WHEN Congress passed Title IX, and it was that summer of 1972 when I first got in the pool. My mom never learned to swim so she took me to our local YMCA before my first birthday and enrolled me in water safety lessons. What started as an assurance plan for my parents turned into a lifelong passion for me. I loved the pool and found an outlet for my energy, competitive spirit and enthusiasm for life. At 3 years old, I joined the swim team. By the age of 10, I broke my first national record in my age group for the 200-meter free. At 15, I broke world records in the 400, 800 and 1,500. And at 17, I won three golds at…

I LOOKED BACK AT WHERE my whole journey started and the words Title IX kept popping into my head. It’s the movement that helped progress women’s sport. And it’s one that opened the door for me to pursue my dream. As a young girl, I wrote a report about sports and had to interview my one living grandmother, on my mom’s side. I learned that she couldn’t participate in some sports, which were considered too grueling for girls. In some instances, they didn’t even offer girls sports. Now, as an athlete, it’s hard to fathom the idea of not being introduced to sports, let alone allowed to play, or that sports weren’t offered because of your sex. My grandmother eventually picked up tennis and, along with my grandfather, had three…

Modi’s government has undertaken a bold programme of reform, which is bearing fruit in the country’s economic results and global rankings. The country rose from 81st to 48th in the Global Innovation Index published by the World Intellectual Property Organization, a UN agency, in the five years to 2020. It also leapt from 143rd to 63rd in the World Bank’s Doing Business rankings in the same period. The government’s approach has been to open up the economy to both financial and strategic investors, with an emphasis on key industries. Liberalisation has gone hand-in-hand with measures to support both foreign and domestic businesses’ growth in India. “The India story is strong today and stronger tomorrow,’ said Modi earlier this year. “Today, the FDI regime has been very well liberalised. We have…

This rapid growth has led one of the country’s leading multinational conglomerates, RP Sanjiv Goenka (RPSG) Group, to build its presence in the consumer sector in recent years, with a range of pioneering product lines from snack foods to cosmetics. The group’s roots go back more than 200 years, when an ancestor of the current chairman moved to Calcutta to do business with the British East India Company, for which the family were bankers. RPSG currently operates more than thirty companies with 45,000 employees in industries including FMCGs, utilities, sports, and entertainment; it has a $7bn asset base and $4bn in annual revenue. Throughout, it has benefitted from its unique ability to adapt, its reputation for reliability, and it’s deep understanding of the market. “We offer speed, agility, and knowledge…

While the government plays a key role in offering people a better life, there is also an important role to be played by entrepreneurs and businesses. “We use money in order to create more productivity, more value, rather than for consumption purposes. I like to think that I work in order to make people’s lives better, to improve their lives and their families’ quality of living,” says R. Thyagarajan, founder of Shriram Group, one of the leading non-banking financial companies in India, which has played a key role in the lives of many thousands of individuals. Shriram Group was founded in 1974 and has grown to include everything from life and general insurance to wealth management to vehicle loans to mutual fund investments. For decades one of its most important…

India can achieve annual growth of 8.0-8.5% over the coming years, according to global consultancy McKinsey, pointing to the country’s recent history of rapid economic expansion, productivity increases, and poverty alleviation. McKinsey particularly highlighted India’s many innovative companies that have a central role to play in achieving the country’s potential. One of the industries behind the Indian economic miracle is the gold and diamond trade, which accounts for 7.5% of GDP and 14% of total merchandise exports, according to the India Brand Equity Foundation. Indeed, India is the world’s largest exporter of cut and polished diamonds, polishingaround90%oftheglobe’sroughdiamonds. Surat-based Sagar Diamonds is a key player in this market, exporting around 70-80% of its output, and is targeting further growth in the coming years. The company’s success is founded on its experience…

Citing a rapid economic rebound, high liquidity, and a strengthening fiscal position, ratings agency Moody’s upgraded its outlook for India in late 2021. The decision should boost long-term foreign investment in the South Asian giant, underlining its robust performance and increasing stability. The outlook is particularly bright for the manufacturing sector. Global consultancy McKinsey estimates that India could add an extra $320bn to its GDP through manufacturing between 2020 and 2027, driven both by exports and domestic demand. Generator manufacturer TD Power Systems (TDPS), one of the global leaders in its field, epitomises India’s industrial strengths. The high-tech, knowledge-intensive business has an impeccable track record of work, supplying 5000 machines to nearly 100 countries since its inception. “We are always open to new partnerships,” says Nikhil Kumar, TD Power Systems’…

June 23, 1972 Title IX, an update to civil rights law that extends an existing ban on sex discrimination to education, is signed into law by President Richard Nixon. September 1973 Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in an exhibition match dubbed the “Battle of the Sexes.” Plus: The U.S. Open becomes the first major tournament to award equal prize money for men and women champions after King threatens to boycott over pay disparity. November 1973 A New Jersey court rules girls must be allowed to play Little League baseball. 538,000 girls play in youth leagues in 2021. 1974 Ann Meyers Drysdale becomes the first female recipient of a full four-year athletics scholarship in any sport, signing onto UCLA’s basketball team. There, she is the first player in Division I…

IF TITLE IX DIDN’T EXIST, women simply wouldn’t have equal opportunities to play the sports that we love. And I personally wouldn’t have had the experiences of being recruited to a top college basketball team and winning a national championship. Or had the prospect of being drafted into the WNBAperhaps, God willing, even to be a professional team’s No. 1 pick. Winning the NCAA national championship in April was special. Last year, we came really close and then we lost in the Final Four. Our attitude afterwards was: This is it, we can do it this year. We had a special team, and we worked so hard. So for that buzzer to sound and know we had just won a national championship was amazing. A lot of young kids, especially…

LISA FERNANDEZ, 51, HAS OFTEN BEEN CALLED women’s softball’s greatest-of-all-time. An overpowering pitcher and a great hitter, in the 1990s she led the UCLA Bruins to two national titles and the U.S. Olympic team to three gold medals, helping to spark the sport’s tremendous growth in popularity since then. She is now an assistant coach at UCLA. The following conversation has been edited for space and clarity. –Meredith Wolf Schizer Would your playing career have been possible before Title IX? I definitely don’t think my career would have been the same. I was born in 1971. It truly came at a time when I was able to reap the benefits of those who sacrificed before me. How about your coaching career? Any opportunity in women’s athletics has been greatly influenced…

Bain refers to the Indian consumer sector as one of the “profit pools of the future” which is attracting investment from leading Indian businesses. With a population of 1.4bn, 50% of whom are aged below 25, India is arguably the world’s most attractive consumer market. And it is picking up pace: a March 2022 survey by the central bank noted that consumer confidence continued to improve, bolstered by the general economic outlook, employment, and household income. Chennai-based conglomerate TTK Group is one of the Indian businesses that is capitalising on this growth, hand-in-hand with a wide range of top-ranking international partners, having worked in the past with global brands including Cadbury’s, MaxFactor, Kiwi, Kraft, Sunlight, Lifebuoy, Lux, Ponds, Brylcreem, Kellogg’s, Ovaltine, Horlicks, Mclean, Sheaffer’s, Waterman’s and many others. “We have…

According to Virendra Dattatray Mhaiskar, chairman and managing director of IRB Infrastructure Developers Limited, the country now has one of the largest road development programs underway anywhere in the world, with plans to upgrade a highway network of almost 200,000 kilometers. “This kind of network upgrade will require a large amount of money and will present a huge opportunity for the private sector developers,” he says. Founded in 1998, IRB Infrastructure Developers has become India’s leading integrated roads and highways infrastructure developer, with a major presence in the Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) space. The company has a footprint across 10 Indian states, with a current portfolio of 24 projects, including 23 highways and one airport, and over 13,000 lane kilometers of roads under operations. Mhaiskar says that IRB is not a solely…

It looks set to be a good year for India; the country’s economy is forecasted to grow by 9% in 2022, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), after being hit hard by early waves of the coronavirus pandemic, with corporate profits now surging. This has once again put the country on the map of global investors. “India is one of the most exciting investment destinations in the world today,” says Saroj Poddar, chairman of Indian conglomerate Adventz Group, one of the most reputable companies in India with more than two dozen businesses across the agriculture, engineering, real estate and services industries. Adventz has long been the partner of choice for international companies looking to expand into India, aided by Poddar’s long track record of success; he brought Gillette razors…

Paper manufacturing is a small but important part of the Indian economy, and an industry that is growing fast. According to the latest annual report from the Central Pulp & Paper Research Institute, Indian paper production doubled its capacity between 2010 and 2020, and is set to see strong growth in the years ahead. Founded in 1968, Pudumjee Paper represents the cutting edge of the Indian paper industry, having grown to include a wide range of special papers and soft tissues. “Our high value-added paper goes everywhere, from masking tape to a McDonald’s burger wrapper,” says Arun Kumar M. Jatia, chairman of Pudumjee Paper. “You’re probably exposed to our products from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed,” he adds. Today, Pudumjee Paper has an…

OVER A 50-PLUS YEAR CAREER, director and writer John Waters’ general creative approach has been very consistent. “I make fun of the rules,” Waters tells Newsweek. “I’m making fun of the rules that I live in.” Since the outrageous rule breaking of his early camp/bad-taste masterpieces Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble through more mainstream success with the film and stage versions of Hairspray, Waters has specialized in taking odd, objectively repulsive characters and making them seem somehow not only normal but loveable. Much like Waters himself. When Pink Flamingos came out 50 years ago, mainstream critics were appalled. In 2021, the National Film Registry added the film to the Library of Congress for being culturally significant. “It is the ultimate wonderful irony, but I accept it with great flattery,’’ Waters…

TITLE IX HAS IMPACTED SO many women, but it was a movement in life as well as in sports at the time. Because of laws like Title IX, more opportunities and more openings were created for women in all aspects of life. In sports generally, in colleges and in professional sports, Title IX opened doors. Early on in my career there were definitely moments that opened my eyes to inequality between men and women, like disproportionate court times. I saw how many women’s matches were on center courts at combined events for women and men. When you’re relegated to a side court, you notice that. Experiencing prize money that wasn’t equal was incredibly significant. No man had to experience that, but every woman did. That was pretty glaring until I…

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, HAS always been home for me, it laid the foundation. Even though my family didn’t have all the things that we probably wanted as far as materialistic items, there was a lot of love in our home, a lot of motivation and a lot of push to be the best that we could be. When I first started running at the age of 9, I wasn’t one of the best girls. In my first competition, I finished last. But what I loved about it was that it was fun. So I just said to myself: If I can improve a tenth of a second when running, or half of an inch if I was jumping, that meant the work that I was doing was paying off. Eventually,…

IT’S CRAZY TO THINK THAT we are celebrating 50 years of Title IX, and I am happy to say that I am a product of Title IX. I was born in 1971, a year before Title IX was signed into law but I still consider myself a Title IX baby. There are moments when I look back on my life and career and couldn’t imagine life as a female athlete without this law. As a young girl from Brownfield, Texas, who started playing hoops at the age of 7, basketball was life! I knew at a very early age how much I loved the game and that there was something special about me and that orange ball. I remember every time my brothers would leave to go play basketball, I…

The America‘s Best Plastic Surgeons 2022 ranking awards the leading plastic surgeons in the U.S. Plastic surgeons were awarded in five major cosmetic surgery procedure categories: breast augmentation, liposuction, facelift, rhinoplasty and eyelid surgery. Some surgeons were awarded for more than one procedure. Plastic surgeons who exclusively offer reconstruction or non-elective reconstruction/correction were excluded from the survey. Plastic surgeons from the 20 U.S. states with the most plastic surgeons were included in the survey: California, Indiana, Florida, Texas, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, New Jersey, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Michigan, Arizona, Maryland, Massachusetts, Washington, Tennessee, Connecticut and Minnesota. The remaining states were divided into four regions: Northeast: Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont Midwest: Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Missouri West: Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,…

The communications platforms as a service, or CPaaS industry, holds particularly high potential: the industry is projected to generate more than $34 billion in global sales by 2026, while 95% of companies are expected to be using application programming interface-enabled CPaaS offerings by 2025. This leaves Tanla Platforms, one of India’s largest and most-globalized CPaaS firms, uniquely well-positioned to grow its operations further abroad. Established at the turn of the century, Tanla is a CPaaS company on the cutting edge of innovation. It has evolved from a first-generation entrepreneurial venture to a market leader in CPaaS, benefitting from deep domain expertise and strong partnerships forged with leading mobile carriers, businesses, and regulators. The company is a rarity in India, as Uday Reddy, founder chairman and ceo explained, because its reach…

This economic picture has the potential to strengthen even further with development of key industries: the Indian manufacturing sector “could become an engine for economic growth and jobs”, global consultancy leader McKinsey has said. McKinsey called India “a potential manufacturing powerhouse”, and noted that the manufacturing sector grew by an average 7.4% a year in the six years to 2020. The consultancy sees developing competitive manufacturing hubs as one of the keys to India’s economic future over the coming decade, capitalising on strengths in raw materials, manufacturing skill, and entrepreneurship. Cosmo Films, a global leader in speciality films, epitomises these strengths, and leads the way in demonstrating what Indian manufacturers can achieve. The company started in 1981 with a capacity of 800 tonnes, which it has raised to 200,000 tonnes…

More than four-fifths of Indian CEOs have confidence in their company’s medium-term growth prospects, according to the 2021 India CEO Outlook published by global consultancy giant KPMG. Reflecting growing confidence, some 90% of CEOs expect to increase headcount in the coming three years, and more than half are planning acquisitions. One driver of M&A will be the logistics industry. The McKinsey Global Institute, the global consultancy firm’s research arm, has estimated that the sector could grow at an annual rate of 10% to at least $320bn by 2025. While the covid-19 pandemic has slowed the pace of growth, digitisation and pro-business reforms are helping restore strong momentum in this fast-growing economy. Allcargo Logistics, has been actively pursuing M&A and other partnerships worldwide as it looks to build on its position…

India has consistently been one of the world’s leading economic reformers in recent years, according to the World Bank’s Doing Business report; the South Asian giant ranked among the top ten improvers for the third consecutive time in 2020. Deep & long-term reforms are helping strengthen the competitiveness of the Indian textile in-dustry, one of the world’s largest. The thriving sector contributes 5% to the country’s GDP and 12% of export earnings, according to official figures. The value-added component of the industry is growing rapidly thanks to companies such as Garware Technical Fibres, a publicly listed company that is one of the country’s leading technical textile manufacturers, serving over 75 countries from India to Chile and Norway. Founded in 1976, the business remains true to its roots, the secret behind…

“There will be something here for a lot of people because of the grief, the loss, the unknowns about how to move through grief.” ONE OF THE FIRST YOUTUBE VIRAL VIDEOS WAS MARCEL THE SHELL WITH Shoes On. Released in 2010 and created and voiced by Jenny Slate with Dean Fleischer-Camp, the video about a talking shell has since raked in millions of views, been turned into a children’s book and now is a new film from the studio A24. Behind the voice it started with, Slate says, were “confusing, dissonant feelings about my own worth as a performer, as a person.” In the film, Marcel teams up with a new friend Dean to find his family, along the way being interviewed by his hero, Leslie Stahl of 60 Minutes.…