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A “broken” democracy…

Just came across this quote by Al Gore (asking people become more directly involved in climate change) in TIME Magazine*. You can pretty much say the same things about our political situation and governance…It...

A great model of good governance

I first heard about Sakshi through Geeta Gokhale of BPD (Thanks Geeta). What got me interested was this story about their latest “success” (below). After reading that, I decided to do some background research...

How a tea-stall survey trumped exit polls…(and more)

Four articles re. the UP elections. CAUTION: LONG POST. While catching up on the post-election analysis of UP elections, I picked up this interesting article by Vidya Subrahmaniam: “Travelling in U.P. at election time” *****...

Of “Sacred Bulls”, Divinity and Development

Some of you may have already come across the controversy surrounding a decision by the Welsh assembly government in UK to slaughter a “sacred bull” which has tested positive for tuberculosis. (read here and...

ULFA, ISI and Terrorism

Last week, I wrote about how “Islamisation of North-East” is now a real threat to the security of India – especially as there is increasing evidence of ISI coordinating its activities across our borders....