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Ireland and the Dilemma of Abortion
Savita Halappanavar, seemed to be having it all, the young, good-looking 31 year old dentist from Belgaum, was settled in Ireland, along with her engineer husband, Praveen, in the town of Galway. Add to it, she was expecting her first child, and in the words of her husband, she was...
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The Dragon in Africa
The tragedy of Africa is that the African has never really entered history,The African peasant only knew the eternal renewal of time marked by the endless repetition of the same gestures and the same words. In this realm of fancy there is neither room for human endeavour nor the idea...
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Voices of India – Andhra Pradesh
Warning: Please keep in mind that some of the images in this post could be really disturbing, it was necessary keeping in view some of the issues we were examining. Also please note, this feature is to show the ground reality as it is, there is no ideological bias here....
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Voices of India: Odisha
From quite some time, I had been wanting to do a study on how 20 years of reforms affected the people of India. Most of the writing on the impact of economic reforms was of two types either it was the Shining India kind. gushing about the Malls, IT companies,...
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Netaji: The Hero We Lost
I have said that today is the proudest day of my life. For an enslaved people, there can be no greater pride, no higher honour, than to be the first Soldier in the Army of Liberation. But this honour carries with it a corresponding responsibility and I am deeply conscious...
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Brazil: Beyond Soccer and Samba
For decades Brazil as a nation had some set images, associated with it. It was a land of soccer crazy people, and a country that seemed to produce great soccer players off an assembly line. To many up North America, it was the place, where you went for the sun,...
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Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
This post was earlier published by me at http://tinyurl.com/6wynhxl 1893, Chicago, The World Parliament of Religions – A young monk from India, dressed in orange robes, stood up to address the gathering. He bowed nervously to Saraswati, the Goddess of Learning, and started with “Sisters and Brothers of America”. The...
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2011: A Review
So another year will be soon passing into history, for scholars, academicians, historians to ponder over. They sure have a lot to think about this year though, a whole lot of stuff has happened, that has just left them struck dumbfounded not knowing what exactly to make of it. Governments...
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Erdogan and the Rise of Turkey
Growing up as a kid, the word Turkey, meant 2 things to me, one was that fat, weird looking bird, that often ended up as a Thanksgiving delicacy, and the other one was a country, whose sobriquet was The Sick Man of Europe. Growing up later my knowledge of Turkey was...
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RIP Vaclav Havel
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less. It was December 1989, in the days when the Net was something which only existed in science fiction, and TV meant Doordarshan...
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The Rise and Rise of Qatar
In September 2011, after the overthrow of Gadaffi, and the take over of Libya, by the NTC, there was a “Friends of Libya” meet hosted in Paris. Hosted jointly by Nicolas Sarkozy, French President and the British PM, David Cameron, it was primarily meant to be a bonding exercise between...
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Libya and the legacy of Gadaffi
With the capture of Saif Gadaffi, one can safely assume that the Gadaffi’s family chapter has been closed in Libya for now. Again this article is about a place with which I have a personal connect. Yep my father worked for 5 years in Libya as a doctor, and yours...
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Vizag-Bhubaneshwar: A Potential Growth Corridor
Vishakapatnam aka Vizag and Bhubaneshwar are two places, with which I have a personal connection. Vizag is my home town, the place where I spent a good 30 yrs of my life, where I grew up, was educated, and worked for some time too. Bhubaneshwar is where I got the first important break in my IT...