Chan Akya Mark Twain quipped that the lack of money is the root of all evil. Humans are irrational, but societies are rarely so, until they choose to become extinct. Understanding the economic factors unde
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Clifford McCoy Myanmar’s army is using the threat of starvation to force thousands of civilians out of the country’s eastern hills, where the government is pitched in a protracted battle against ethnic
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The Rajinder Sachar Committee’s report on the status of the Muslims of India holds greater relevance when it is officially acknowledged that the Muslims of India are lagging behind socially, economically as w
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Prof Amit BhaduriIt has become a cliché, even a politically correct cliché these days, to say that there are two Indias: the India that shines with its fancy apartments and houses in rich neighbourhoods, corp
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Praful BidwaiA month after President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan proposed a four-point formula to resolve the troubled question of Kashmir jointly with India, exploratory contacts between the two governments h
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Shylashri ShankarAre the courts of India straying into the executive and legislative folds?In 1993, political scientist Gerald Rosenberg published a book on the American court system titled The Hollow Hope: Can
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Shawn W Crispin Who is responsible for the coordinated bomb attacks that rocked Thailand’s capital on New Year’s Eve, resulting in at least three deaths, 38 injuries and sowing fear and chaos across th
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Arkotong LongkumerAt the end of the year, we usually write piecemeal columns about the year: updates, reviews, highlight various events that form an important part of this exercise. Which are the most str
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Robert FiskSaddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of
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B Rahul Analysis of the latest data made available by the Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi (IGNOU) in response to an application made under the Right to Information Act reveals that the av
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Tenzing SonamWill Dharamsala’s insistence on following the current form of the Dalai Lama’s Middle Way approach continue to hinder a return to Lhasa? Will China ever relent?The Chinese attacks on the Dalai
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It has been two years since the tsunami washed over the Andaman & Nicobar Islands and destroyed the homes and livelihoods of its residents. Although the government made a lot of promises, and spent a lot of
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Paranjoy Guha ThakurtaDespite persistent poverty and income disparities the fading year marks the point when, 60 years after independence from colonial rule, Indians are investing more abroad than the country i
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Raja M “Die, gobbledygook!” cry a Kolkata-based band of language revolutionaries working to free English from the intimidating, mind-strangling jargon, officialese and legalese confusing our lives. The
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Sudha Ramachandran Even as US President George W Bush signed into law a bill that Congress passed last week allowing Washington to conduct nuclear trade with India, sections in India are wondering whether
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Nirupama SarmaYet another World AIDS Day has come and gone. And with it, de rigueur, the reports on the numbers infected, the televised debates on what’s being done (or not), the images of Bollywood biggies u
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Dr. K. HoshiEconomic development is the ‘mantra’ in present Naga society. What the laymen perceive as economic development are the physical infrastructure developments visible to the naked eyes. Today, this
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Chan Akya A mid-life crisis usually comes about when an individual realizes that he/she has been chasing the wrong goal, rather than when the person realizes that their goals are unattainable. Much the sam
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Badri RainaIndia’s majoritarian fascists, represented in parliament by the Bharti Janata Party (BJP), are in a blue funk. The findings of the “Prime Ministers’ High Level Committee” (set up on 9th
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Chan Akya If only economist Milton Friedman were still alive, he would weep at the recent turn of events encompassing Asian politics in recent weeks. No, I am not talking here about North Korea’s nuclear
