There are three interlocking crises currently haunting the global capitalist economy: food shortages, oil-price hikes and the credit crunch. This convergence of crises in agriculture, energy and the credit market
The Match
by Romesh Gunesekera
The New Press, 2008 This is the story of Sunny, raised in the Manila of the 1970s to a life in London and a longing
The verdant hills of Nagaon District, the main centre of stone quarrying in Assam, mask a web of labour exploitation. Visits to the quarries reveal workers clearing the ground of
It has come full-circle. The friends-turned-foes say they are friends again. The latest peace agreement between the Pakistan government and the Taliban could well cease hostilities in the serene Swat
The single, raw impulse at the origins of the 'political psychologist' Ashis Nandy's complex career has been the desire to recover indigenous systems of knowledge in
If, today, Rudyard Kipling were to come back to Bundi, in Rajasthan, he would find that nothing had changed nearly a century since he last was here. Indeed, travelling to
