Infocus

  • The State's Money Trees
    For the world's ruling classes, primed for the G20 summit last week, the seemingly colorless niceties of monetary policy became the topmost theme of debate. And while the villains of the political class charact
  • Do those against corruption know about Irom Sharmila?
    It was fashionable to be patriotic during the Kargil war and now it is fashionable to be fighters against corruption, thanks to Anna Hazare.Within days of the fast of the veteran Gandhian’s understandable
  • Empowering Rural Women
    A Regional Women Leaders' Convention is being held on 24-25 March 2011, in Mau, UP, as part of the Empowering Rural Women (ERW) programme, which has been operating in 253 Gram Panchayats (village councils) of 1
  • Bogus cricket diplomacy
    Obsessed with Pakistan, Manmohan Singh failed to promote India's larger interests in the neighbourhood during the Cricket World Cup tournament. India’s neighbours like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, B
  • Earth Day Space
    PRAYER for the World!Lord, help us to keep the worldAs green and as beautiful as you created it!By Tsunolam, Class 9A, Pilgrim School, Dimapur
  • It's a civilian coup d'état
    The inclusion of ‘civil society' representatives in the drafting committee of the Lok Pal Bill raises several discomfiting questions. Where are we headed as a nation?Since RTI campaigner Arvind Kejriwal w
  • My brain made me buy it
    Can’t get out of the shopping mall until your wallets get thin or instinctively found yourself dashing into a shop at the glance of a hanging T-Shirt? Ever felt your memory decoded and you simply responde
  • WORLD EARTH DAY
    Earth Day SpaceInitiated by Resource Centre_______________________________________ Glass Painting Manphe, Class 10,Little Star Higher Sec. School, Dimapur.   _______________________________________
  • Dream Makes You A Leader!
    We have read and heard the greatest man of the 18th Century, Abraham Lincoln, US President of the 18th Century. Who persisted in his political career to fulfilled one of his most important dreams that the Almig
  • The future of Asian cities
    After two decades of rapid urbanisation, many Asian cities have become economically productive and prosperous. But have they become desirable places to live in? A report on the “State of Asian Cities 2010
  • Jan Lokpal bill: Addressing concerns
    The draft bill seeks to create an institution that will be independent of those it seeks to police, and will have powers to investigate and prosecute all public servants, and others found guilty of corrupting t
  • The surprising factors behind Asia’s renaissance
    As Asia reemerges on the world stage in this century, its civilizational origins will become a subject of intense study and debate. Asians are rediscovering their own past and deriving inspiration from it for t
  • Is Your Children's Intelligence At Risk?
    Today's subject is considered a controversial one. But I am confident that you have enough brain power to examine the evidence thoughtfully and come to a valid conclusion. My job will be to present the facts. Y
  • Mindset that stifles hope
    There is no reason why we cannot redefine governance except perhaps the mindset of much of our bureaucracy and political class steeped in socialism.Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves
  • Year of the boomerang?
    This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth. Fatin Abbas argues that the uprisings that have erupted across north Africa and the Middle East in recent mon
  • Democracy update from Egypt
    The most important thing is that protesters are still demonstrating in Egypt, keeping pressure on the interim military council to move toward democracy, says Sherif Mansour. This program officer for the Middle
  • The Challenge of Peace for the Nagas
    In his 2011 New Year message, S. Singnya, the President of the ‘Federal Government of Nagaland/ Naga National Council’ (FGN/NNC) declared,After several rounds of reconciliation meets and the declara
  • What Egypt Can Teach America
    It’s a new day in the Arab world — and, let’s hope, in American relations to the Arab world.The truth is that the United States has been behind the curve not only in Tunisia and Egypt for the
  • How Nuclear Apologists Mislead The World Over Radiation
    Soon after the Fukushima accident last month, I stated publicly that a nuclear event of this size and catastrophic potential could present a medical problem of very large dimensions. Events have proven this obs
  • Assam: Alienating The Natives
    In the recently concluded assembly elections in Assam (March-April 2011), one of the issues which was whipped up by BJP was about the Bengali speaking people especially the Muslims of Assam. Most of the Bengali
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