Unfortunately for the Washington Consensus institutions and their blue-eyed boys in Third World governments, the Guru himself has spoken out with brutal frankness about the effects that the ...

offered to ally with dalits. It has put forward as an attractive formulation, Shiv Shakti+Bhim Shakti=Deshbhakti (Shiv Power+Bhims Power= Patriotism, Shiv Senas clout+ Dalits clout=Patriotism)).

The wages of fu ...

For instance, it would make it impossible for about half of U.S. lands to sustain the types of plants and animals that now inhabit them. A huge portion of America's protected areas, large and small, ...

Kerala Chief Minister A. K. Antony is a sad man now. Not because his policemen opened fire on agitating Tribals, including women and children, on February 19 at Muthanga forests in Wayanad district, ...

secure and less healthy lives than their Hindu counterparts. Census figures paint a bleak picture of their plight. In rural India, 29% of Muslims earn less than $6 a month, compared with 26% of Hindus ...

OXFORD, England -- Iraq is not only on the brink of war. It is teetering on the edge of a humanitarian disaster. Child mortality rates have rocketed since the United Nations imposed sanctions in 1990.

Almost all Srinagar residents want peace, azadi, and an end to the authoritarianism of Indian forces. AMIT CHAKRABORTY, who observed the recently-concluded elections in J&K, explains why the polls ...

Prabhu has already hinted at the possibility of levying interlinking surcharge or water tax but the upcoming Union Budget is unlikely to have any such reflection given the fact that elections are only ...

The democracy, however imperfect, that we are, it's not possible to suppress active opposition of the multitude, certainly not for long, as Indira Gandhi learnt the hard way. Thus, for any action to ...

This is a view that is held by many advocates of the free software movement, who are disappointed by the willingness of State and Central government agencies to rub shoulders with Gates and rely on ...

The team members, all wearing 'bollgard' caps and accompanied by company officials from Mahyco-Monsanto, actually saw the standing crop in ten acres (out of the 9,300 acres sown with Bt cotton) and ...