Max MartinThe top down approach of the Disaster Management Act had its advantages but completely ignored local knowledge and ways of living.Six years after the release of the India Disasters Report the Indian g
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Teesta SetalvadFriends,As I stand here to accept this award given in memory of a man who has been described alternately as a passionate democrat, a patriot and above a good human being I cannot but recall how t
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Siddharth Srivastava Indian workers will pocket the world’s highest-percentage salary increases in 2007, according to an international survey, thanks to a severe manpower shortage combined with strong ec
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Sudha Ramachandran Barely two weeks after Hindu-Muslim riots rocked Bangalore, another wave of violence is threatening to engulf the city. A tribunal verdict regarding sharing of the waters of the River Ca
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Mneesha Gellman and Josh Dankoff We sat around the breakfast table gently sweating along with our hosts in the early morning heat. Tola served porridge for the guests, then put a big scoop of
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Dhruba Adhikary The disturbances that mountainous Nepal is currently facing in the southern plains, called Terai, threaten to blossom into a separatist movement as in Sri Lanka. And they could derail the p
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Toni solo Nuala O’Loan’s recent report on UK government security forces’ collusion with Loyalist death squads in the north of Ireland points up various historical reminders of relevance now as the B
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Syed Saleem Shahzad Western officials involved in counter-narcotics operations in Afghanistan estimate that this year the country will produce its biggest poppy crop in history. Nevertheless, Taliban-domin
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Larry Jagan Myanmar’s top generals are in the throes of a full-blown power struggle as they grapple with how best to introduce significant political reforms, including a planned move toward some form of
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Aaron KikonChumukedimaThe Taj Mahal was once but just a thought, an idea, a dream in the mind of a man called Shah Jahan. But when he went about realising that dream, the result was the Taj Mahal. I believe the
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Bal PatilI think it would be most appropriate to recall the great Ahmedabad trial at this juncture when the centennial of the Gandhian satyagraha in South Africa is commemorated worldwide. When Mahatma Gandhi e
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Meredith Terretta Most of the reviewers of Ngugi’s latest novel, Wizard of the Crow, corral the book into two major themes they find in its 760 pages. The first exposes corrupt dictators in postcolonial
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Indrajit Basu Guess what is the current status symbol in Assam - a tea-growing state in northeastern India - these days? It is not the latest-model multi-utility vehicle, the price of which could buy a sma
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Ambrose MusiyiwaZimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe has been named as one of the 33 leading “predators of press freedom” in the world.“Whether presidents, ministers, chiefs of staff, religious leaders or
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Bertil Lintner Myanmar’s military government may have narrowly escaped United Nations Security Council sanction, but it is facing an unprecedented political challenge at home, not by the crippled opposit
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Dhruba AdhikarySeeing is believing. The maxim holds good when the situation around you is normal. What Nepal is facing today is anything but normal. This perhaps is the reason Nepalis are reluctant to believe i
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Joel S HirschhornWhat a wonderful political distraction is Senator Barack Hussein Obama. Perhaps a good part of his attractiveness is that he is in so many ways the complete opposite of George W. Bush.Yet, what
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Maloy Krishna DharThe latest ULFA carnage in Assam has been diagnosed by top leaders like quack doctors, broadcasting panic, and their diagnosis is wide off the mark.Ministers with foot-in-mouth disease rushed
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Chan AkyaOver the past few days, on a visit to India to improve economic ties, the message of UK Chancellor (and prime minister in waiting) Gordon Brown has been muddied by an unseemly media controversy over ap
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Michael Black Long known for its wheeling and dealing in heroin, methamphetamines and pirated video discs, Myanmar’s United Wa State Army (UWSA), the world’s largest armed narcotics-trafficking group,
