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Angelina Jolie, Bono, George Clooney . . . and closer to India, Arundhati Roy, Shabana Azmi, and Amitabh Bachchan--all celebrities and activists too.
Andrew Cooper, an associate director at the Ontario-based think tank, Centre for International Governance Innovation, is currently in India to promote his book, Celebrity Diplomacy--a slim treatise on the new high-wattage emissaries from the film and music industry.
Taking a leaf out of the smooth interaction between high-profile activists and CEOs of top companies at the annual World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, he said that movie stars have a “different sort of access to influential …
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