INTERVIEW | 'Professor Yunus has always seen India as a natural ally of Bangladesh'
4 months ago

INTERVIEW | 'Professor Yunus has always seen India as a natural ally of Bangladesh'

New Indian Express  

A My love of South Asia was born after I watched the film Gandhi. As a student at the Cornell University in the mid-1980s, I got excited about the possibilities of micro credit, especially the way Professor Yunus and the Grameen Bank provided it. I got a Fulbright Scholarship to support my first year in Bangladesh with Grameen, became fluent in Bangla, and ended up staying in the country for the next six years. When I turned 30, Professor Yunus asked me to start an organization that would promote the Grameen model and ideals globally. When Professor Yunus began to be targeted by the Sheikh Hasina government, myself and many others tried to help him through those difficult years in small ways.

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