The Development World Led By America is Openly Pplaying Politics with Climate Change. It’s Our Duty Not To Give I The global negotiations on Climate Change at Copenhagen enter its final stage with the three-day Heads of States Summit starting today. Reports so far indicate the unfolding of the Shakespearean dilemma of Hamlet, the Prince... »
Still On A Tinderbox
Mumbai Has become An Easy Target For Terrorists Thanks To its Effete, Bankrupt And Corrupt Political Class As the media goes into an overdrive on the first anniversary of last November’s Mumbai terror attack, we should remember that before 2.6/11, there was 12/3. Way back... »
It’s Time For Action
All that the US needs to curb greenhouse emissions is shrug off its laziness In the US, the legal and policy response to global warming lags far behind the urgency of the problem as articulated by scientists and borne out in the real world. In... »
That Sinking Feeling
Climate Change Poses Grave Threats To Peace and Stability in South Asia We have increasingly become a ‘risk society’ – to borrow a phrase from Ulrich Beck -living in the... »
Wallpapered Over
While the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, some myths need to be demolished and some facts exposed I witnessed the euphoric celebrations in... »
Lost In Retraction
Now you hear them, now you don’t. Our politicos are masters of verbal jugglery. Or are they? Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi ‘Twitter’ Tharoor has some tough competition... »