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Of all the innovations that have shaped our lives in recent years, none has been more influential than the destruction of the Berlin Wall. The Wall did not fall as is often described. It was taken apart stone by stone by people angry about their...
One thing that has come out of the financial crisis is a new world economic order. Or so at least the many people who dislike America are hoping for. They are still angry about George W Bush, if not the very existence of the US itself.
The Human Development Report of the UNDP attracts a lot of attention partly for the theme it chooses each year to explore but much more for the Human Development Index. Everyone wants to know who went up and who moved down.
The Chandrayaan has detected water on the moon. When you see the NASA presentation, you realise why physical sciences are way ahead of the social sciences.
The one thought I have on the first anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse is whether 9/15 was more harmful than 9/11. The latter episode has changed the way we travel, the way we view the world, especially the Muslim world, and it has heightened all sorts...
A week is a long time in politics. What a tumultuous time it has been in Indian politics. On August 17, Jaswant Singh’s book was launched and the ten days following saw the BJP fall apart at the top.
The IMF has said that it thinks the recession is over. The Economist celebrates the resilience of the Asian economies. In the OECD countries, it looks as if Germany and France are recovering faster than the Anglo-Saxon twins—the US and UK.
There is just a faint chance that a sensible economic policy is about to take shape with the new UPA government. It is of course too early to tell and the instincts of the Congress are dirigiste in the extreme.
Let us start with Sensex. On May 18, the market had gone through the roof and trading had to be suspended. This was the market celebrating the demise of the Left.
