Category: Current Affairs

Beware the colour of money – UPDATED

Some of you must be aware of how sovereign wealth funds are putting huge amounts of money to rescue large US banks hit by the sub-prime crisis. See e.g. World Rides to Wall Street’s...

More on Nano…and blindspots – from Sheshabalaya

Ashutosh Sheshabalaya ,whom I quoted in my earlier post, has followed up with another brilliant piece of writing in The Globalist in which he talks about Nano and India’s impact on the larger global...

On Nano, global warming, India and China

Srinivas Bharadwaj, writing in rediff recently, made some great points about the “trashing” of Nano by some in the western media (“Why some US scribes slammed Tata Nano“, Jan 14 ’08) � Excerpts: “…Tata...

Let us blow up Khajuraho…

By now most, if not all, of you must have read about the shameful and disgusting incidents of molestations of young women in Mumbai and New Delhi on New Year’s Eve… What shocked me...

Secularism has its own agenda

Extracts from a BBC news story: “…Dr Nazir Ali, the bishop of Rochester…in a separate interview with the BBC…said “Britishness” had to be recovered if it was to “have the identity to face another...