Infocus

  • Is Globalization on its way out?
    Girish MishraFor quite some time, serious doubts have been expressed about the continuance of the present era of globalization, based on the Washington Consensus or neo-liberalism. After John Ralston Saul’s w
  • I Have A Dream
    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for
  • The Road to Reconciliation
    Charles Villa-VicencioTruth-telling and the healing of South AfricaThe television image of Archbishop Desmond Tutu hugging his former critics and adversaries is a familiar one. Tears and the emotional trauma of
  • Asia’s new nuclear race
    Purnendra JainWith energy security appearing as a major concern on policy agendas of many Asian nations, both large and small, the option to go nuclear is gaining increasing support in many capitals. Power
  • It’s the money, honey
    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
  • Another blot on Myanmar’s rights record
    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
  • The prospect behind a community’s advancement
    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
  • Development or Developmental Terrorism?
    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
  • Kashmir Resolution in Sight?
    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
  • The judicial activist
    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
  • Thai bombs expose dangerous new divide
    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
  • Any New Year Resolutions?
    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
  • A dictator created then destroyed by America
    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
  • IGNOU, RTI and the distant dream of Women’s Empowerment
    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
  • Roadblock on the Middle Path
    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
  • More horrifying than Tsunami: The ground beneath the waves
    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
  • India investing more abroad than receiving
    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
  • Let us make this perfectly clear
    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
  • India fears US nuclear trap
    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
  • The Great Indian Double Life
    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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