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  • Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S. Foreign policy impotence gripping U.S.

    In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both language and ...

  • Repressing Rights While Talking Law in Uganda

    forced two newspapers and two radio stations to shut down while they conducted a search – and kept them shut. After years of documenting human rights abuses in Uganda, including threats to free expression, I was not impressed by her words. Her claim that the day’s events were grounded in law only further illustrated the government’s emerging practice of citing laws to justify ...

  • BOOK REVIEW Saul Bellows Heart

    Greg Bellow Bloomsbury, $26, 228 pages, illustratedThis probing but fond memoir is perfectly titled (and subtitled), for it gives us a unique look at one of the 20th century’s most distinguished American novelists. There is certainly a lot of heart ...

  • What is the result

    * We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present ...

  • Five ways of putting an end to anger

    1. If there is someone whose bodily actions are not kind but whose words are kind, if you feel anger toward him, meditate to put an end to your ...


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Quarantine

Quarantine

A remake of the chilling handheld Spanish horror-thriller [Rec], Quarantine is essentially 28 Days Later by way of the Blair Witch/Cloverfield aesthetic, and given its blatantly derivative nature, it doesnt deserve to work nearly as well as it does. Conve ... ...

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  • Who cares about cricket

    cricket for about a decade. The only form of the game that i paid any attention in recent years was Test cricket. And i'm beginning to wobble even on that. The howl of outrage from the Indian media and cricket pundits over the match-fixing scandal in ...

  • PIL filed in Madras high court questioning its month-long summer leave

    Madras high court seeking the court's direction to quash its own month-long summer vacation merits serious consideration. Such long leaves for the judiciary, which is already under considerable strain due to a mountain of backlog cases, are not in keeping with the realities of the courts. According to the law ministry's own admission, there are over three crore cases pending in various ...

  • Corruption of the American dream

    corruption in every alleyway in India, so wise up, why should cricket be an exception? The second, and higher order, perspective, is that corruption is increasing the world over. Time permitting, we can magpie-pick our favourite corruption site and that could be in any continent, anywhere. Go ahead, surprise yourself! Why has corruption become so pervasive all over? We know about Indians and ...

  • In death as in life our netas claim priority over us

    Death is said to be the great leveller. As the poet put it: "Sceptre and crown/ Must tumble down,/ And in the dust be equal made/ With the poor crooked scythe and spade." The one exception to this universal rule is India. Here, our political VVIPs -- our netas -- are not only larger than life, they are also larger than death. During their lifetimes -- and very long lifetimes these ...

  • Extractive Industries A New Accountability Agenda

    The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was founded in 2003 with the goal of strengthening governance by increasing transparency over revenues from the oil, gas, and mining sectors. EITI has contributed to much greater disclosures of information and helped spur dialogue in many countries. But EITI has not made progress toward its ultimate purpose of enhancing accountability in ...

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