A Joint Parliamentary Committee has started inquiring into the affair of pesticides in soft drinks. The controversy has been analysed from several angles. Here is a new one. Even the best products need good marketing to succeed. CSE has a …
A Joint Parliamentary Committee has started inquiring into the affair of pesticides in soft drinks. The controversy has been analysed from several angles. Here is a new one. Even the best products need good marketing to succeed. CSE has a …
There has been much loose talk this year about a unipolar world in which the hegemonic USA dominates the globe as none has done since the Roman Empire. That has now been exposed as pure hype by US setbacks at …
Many people ask me what will happen at this week’s meeting of the World Trade Organisation at Cancun. Well, don’t pay much attention: any changes will probably be marginal. More important, media reports on the WTO are typically in the …
Some time ago, the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman posed the question, why do Muslims join Al-Qaida in so many Arab countries but not in India? The answer, he said, lay in India being a secular democracy. In autocracies …
As a frequent visitor to the US, I can say that most Indians do not have the foggiest idea of American attitudes and trends following the Iraq war. Many Indians ask me whether President George Bush is in serious political …
Although the BJP and Congress Party both seem keen on banning cow slaughter throughout India, it looks as though dissent from other parties has blocked the move for the time being. Some critics protest that cow worship is a strictly …
This year marks not only the 56th anniversary of Independence but also the 60th anniversary of the Bengal Famine, in which 2.1 million people died. In 1943 the Raj ignored the drought in Bengal, claiming preoccupation with the war effort …
Another Independence Day has come and gone. Right through history, imperial powers have clung to their possessions to death. Why, then, did Britain in 1947 give up the jewel in its crown, India? For many reasons. The independence struggle exposed …
The British Raj believed in the white man\’s burden. Rudyard Kipling saw Indians as \”lesser breeds without the law\”, of whom no decent standards could be expected. But he saw the white man as a superior species, of whom the …
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