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- Unique Identification Number: The Politics of Privacy and Information
The new power is not money in the hands of the few, but information in the hands of the government....
- Surviving at the Margins: The Politics of Eviction and Resettlement in Delhi
On Google Earth, Yamuna Pushta is eerie and striking. The satellite image of this piece of land shows clusters of...
- Wall Street - Cold, Flat, and Broke
“Dreamed about AIG and the stock market, woke up with the urge to stock up on canned goods and shotguns.”...
- The Nexus of Corruption: Reliance and Government
‘A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.’ ...
- The Russia-Georgia Conflict - Stoking The Embers Of The Cold War
On 7th August 2008, Friday, Georgia, which became independent of the Soviet Union in 1991 began an offensive on Tskhinvali,...
- Nuclear Power - The Seduction of Mephistopheles
‘MEPHISTOPHELES, in the Faust legend, the name of the evil spirit in return for whose assistance Faust signs away his...
- ‘Mommy Dearest’ - The Controversial Legacy of Mother Teresa
‘Saints, should always be judged guilty until they are proven innocent.’ -George Orwell. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, also known as Mother Teresa,...
- Book Review: The Global Food Economy by Tony Weis
The corporate images of the food economy are full of deceptive advertisements of a mythical cornucopia of contented animals waiting...
- Bardolatory - William Shakespeare's Legacy
"I am more easily bored with Shakespeare, and have suffered more ghastly evenings with him, than any dramatist I know." Peter...
- Tibet - The Myth of Shangri-La
‘We ought not suffer ourselves to be deluded by unfounded theory or specious argument.’ -Abbe Felice Fontana.The recent uprising...
- Lead India - A Corporate-Sponsored Circus
Splashed on the front page of the Times of India (11th Feb 2008) is the photograph of the winner of...
- Torture - The Monstrous Deception
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow...
- The End of Dollar Hegemony
The headlines of an Indian newspaper told the story of the weakening dollar ‘Re at new high: 39.9/$.’ The news...
- The Construction of Synthetic Terror
“Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the State." James Jesus Angleton, Head of CIA Counter Intelligence...
- Is India a Prisoner of the Nuclear Dream?
The political crisis of the Manmohan Singh government over the nuclear deal was luridly and graphically presented today on the...
- The Benevolence of Bill Gates
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply...
- Dreaming with BRICs - the Myth of Free Trade and Free Markets
Whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world and hence the world itself - Sir...
- The Rape of the Congo and the Ghost of Neo-colonialism
For the people of Congo Free State created by Leopold II in the nineteenth century, the chicotte was the most...
- Fat And Mean - IBM's Layoff Plans and the New Downsizing
When Sam Palmisano, IBM's chairman and chief executive officer, announced last year, "Our strong performance is the result of excellent...
- Paul Wolfowitz: A Neocon in Torn Socks
As he stood in his torn socks, at the Selimiye Mosque in Turkey, Wolfowitz created a media sensation of sorts....
- A Dark Paradise - The Genocide of Sri Lankan Tamils
"The violence was vicious and bloody. In street after street in Colombo groups of rioters hit only at shops and...
- Book Review: Bait and Switch by Barbara Ehrenreich - White-Collar Blues
One can mentally picture Jane: a bright white woman in her late forties who made good grades in school, worked...
- The Saga of Neutron Jack - Profit At Any Cost
Even in an age as cynical as ours reverence is not dead. But in what is aptly called the age...
- The Politics of Slum Demolition
The demolition drive in Delhi few months back and in Mumbai last year brings to mind the striking observation of...
- Camille Paglia - A Cat Among The Pigeons
'I came in like a scud,' declares Camille Paglia with iconoclastic fervour, ‘ I create total disorder. I just undermine...
- The Holy Grail of Giant Pharma
"The Holy Grail of this Industry is Intellectual Property Protection." Nancy Chockley, President of National Institute for Health Care Management....
- The Good General: Augusto Pinochet (1915-2006)
"I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility...
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