Father, Rafiq Zakaria, was deputy leader of the ruling Congress Party under Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

Mother, Fatima Zakaria, was the Sunday editor of The Times of India – a leading national daily.

Age 28 seems to be a very special milestone for both Arshad and Fareed. At 28, Arshad became one of the youngest Managing Directors at Merrill Lynch and Fareed, at 28, was appointed the Managing Editor of ‘Foreign Affairs’.

Born 1962 in Bombay (now Mumbai), India

Executive Vice president & Co-President Global-Markets and Investment-Banking division of Merrill Lynch. graduated summa cum laude from Harvard where he was a Baker scholar at the Harvard Business School.

At 28, he became Managing Director in Merrill Lynch.

What has been said about Arshad

"Arshad is a particularly dangerous Wall Street character"

"He's a mathematician who knows how to sell."

Born 1965, in Bombay (now Mumbai), India

Grew up in Bombay

Lives in New York

Married, has a 3 year old son

Editor of Newsweek International since October 2000. Also writes a regular column for Newsweek.

In October 2002, he also joined ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" as an analyst on World affairs.

At 28, Fareed was appointed the Managing Editor of ‘Foreign Affairs’, and became the youngest editor in the history of this journal on international politics and economics. He held this position for over seven years

Taught in Harvard University's Department of Government 

Schooling - Cathedral School, Bombay "where 800 Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims ''would gather together and sort of lustily sing 'Nearer My God to Thee.' ''

B.A. in History from Yale University and a PhD in International Relations from Harvard

An author, a columnist, and an editor, Fareed has also been a wine columnist for Slate.com

His next book, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad is due for publication in April 2003

What has been said about Fareed

‘the global thinker"

"one of the 21 most important people of the 21st Century"