Infocus

  • Opposing Gaddafi’s massacre & foreign intervention in Libya
    Unless Libyans themselves own the struggle against Gaddafi, opponents to his regime may find that even if he has been removed from power, ‘Gaddafism’ will continue – but this time propped up b
  • Genetically Modified Crops: Food of contention or deliverance?
    There is a lot of talk today about climate change and the effect of climate change on agricultural production in the world. The positive or the negative impact that the climate change will have is locality spec
  • US Relents and Grants Visa to Afghan Antiwar Campaigner
    Former Afghan member of parliament, Malalai Joya, joins us for her first broadcast interview since arriving in the United States on Friday after officials initially denied her application for a travel visa. Her
  • Government Should Adopt Visualy Impaired People
    Visual impairment is the worst form of disability. If one were to be visually impaired person and also belong to poor family, the problem becomes more severe.  There cannot be a worse condition than being
  • Media as politics in Singapore
    SINGAPORE - Days before Singapore Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced the government's 2011 budget in parliament, the political opposition offered a glimpse of how it would allocate the national f
  • A silver lining in dark Japan?
    During times of great tragedy, the media often focus on little things designed to give us hope: an old man who survived by clinging to his roof or a child improbably pulled from the rubble, safe after several d
  • Incentive for Northeast India: Does it help?
    Introduction: The incentive package scheme under the North East Industrial Policy, 1997, reintroduced as the North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIPP), 2007 intended to promote biotechnolog
  • Oral Literature: Tradition & Modernity
    We all have stories to tell. Stories about joy, sadness, accomplishments, failures or other emotional things that we have lived through. Oral history listens to these stories. Oral history is the systematic col
  • WARREN BUFFETT’S MESSAGE?
    POSCO affected villagers seek responsible investment, not charity, from Buffett Warren Buffett, one of the world’s richest individuals, will urge India’s ultra-rich to give away their wealth to char
  • Down a long and difficult road
    As the newest country in the world, South Sudan faces huge challenges. But the perseverance of the people and their determination to construct a functioning state raise hopes for the country's future. Life in S
  • Non-Communicable Diseases Outsmart Infectious Diseases
    Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs) - cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes - are no longer diseases of the wealthy. They are responsible for 8 million deaths in the world’
  • Dalai Lama and destiny of Tibetans
    To ensure that Tibetans do not lose their sense of nationhood, the Dalai Lama should select his successor before it’s too late. This is all the more important to prevent Beijing from imposing its choice o
  • Mother of insurgencies or reinvention?
    In the early 1980s (when this correspondent returned to Guwahati as working journalist after an eight-year absence), insurgency in the northeast was limited to Nagaland, parts of Manipur and what was then the U
  • Go Japan, go
    Thirteen days after Japan was hit by a devastating earthquake which produced an equally ruinous 30 feet tsunami and pushed the island nation on the edge of a nuclear disaster, it seems like the worst is over, l
  • Understanding the vulnerabilities, opportunities and Climate Change
    Climate change is currently taking place at an unprecedented rate and is projected increase pressures on natural resources and the environment associated with rapid urbanization, industrialization and economic
  • Remembering Hollywood’s Ultimate Icon
    In the beginning, in the 1940s, Taylor was a child star of uncommon beauty who won hearts in Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. In her prime, in the 1950s and 1960s, she was an A-list star who commanded the
  • The Great Earth Hour
    The initiative of WWF to observe Earth Hour by switching off all electricity at 8:30 PM for an hour on 26th March 2011 is already at the door step. It has created a lot of awareness amongst the masses for a bet
  • On political space & coalitions
    India is the second most populous country in the world with roughly one-sixth of its population. Its federal, parliamentary and representative multiparty system makes it the largest democracy. The fact that the
  • American prescription for ending Naxalite menace
    Ending violent attacks on those Naxalites who have already entered politics, enacting comprehensive land reform and other measures aimed at dismantling the rural feudal power structure that oppresses India's po
  • Unfolding of Nagaland
    It was by chance that a rare opportunity came my way to visit Nagaland. Born and brought up in the South, in a cozy, familiar set up, the very idea of a journey lasting three days in the train was a jolt-quite
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