In the days after the 26 December tsunami swept up the Tamil Nadu coast, people united for the sheer common fortune of having survived. Shooing away the vultures, they came
The opening of a road could change the political and cultural landscape of one mountainous corner of Southasia that has suffered more than it should on account of others.
"In rural Maharashtra, I would suggest Phaltan…," replied the incisive commentator and good friend Dilip D'Souza, in April this year, when I asked him about a
Many insurgencies in the latter half of the 20th century served as a tool for the 'weaker' communist bloc to try and change the global power balance. Open
The Japanese tenacity in the fight against nuclear proliferation was the result of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki sixty years ago. In the early morning of 6 August 1945,
Sixty years after the emergence of aid as a strategic tool, its geo-political importance is undiminished. While there has been a renewal of more overt forms of capital accumulation in
The process of globalisation that has been sweeping the world during the last two decades has many facets, both obvious and otherwise. Professional politicians and the mainstream media have projected
