by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 6, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Buddhist mobs have been killing Muslims in Myanmar. Where’s the outrage? Why aren’t all major Buddhist leaders, those supposed paragons of compassion, loudly, unequivocally, calling for a halt to it? Why aren’t Buddhist practitioners world wide...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jan 23, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeThe following piece is also appearing in the Bengali daily published by the Times of India in Kolkata, IndiaU.S. President Barack Obama had practically nothing to say about foreign policy in his second inaugural address, but the figures he has...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Jan 16, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Some months ago I swore off writing about Pakistan. I got tired of calling attention to the same old problems over and over again. What were the characteristics of this status quo? Bear with me. The army playing two dysfunctional parties off...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Aug 1, 2012 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeU.S. public diplomacy in India was in shocking disarray, I discovered, when I visited Kolkata during the winter of 2011. In several posts I described incompetence when it came to interacting with the Indian public and callous if not downright...
