Save our civilisation on May 14, 2011Out there are voices, not so shrill luckily, urging the US and its European allies to fulfill their ‘responsibility’ in Libyan debacle by responding through more direct military means. The Western NATO allies have already imposed a no-fly zone over Libya. The supportive argument is hackneyed: to protect humanity and promote democratic ideals. Sadly, such […]
Superpowers graveyard on March 21, 2011Those inspiring few days of December last spent in Vietnam, one of the few surviving relics of socialism, was a time of deep reflection. Imagine the joy of being amidst a unique people, who fought for freedom in the same century against both the colonial French and the superpower US, none of who could withstand […]
Not so sasti roti on February 22, 2011Public policy responses to the most pressing of society’s needs sometimes do more harm than help the problem for which they are seemingly intended, for either being ill-devised by a non-professional bureaucracy or shrewdly crafted to serve underlying political ends. The Sasti Roti Programme of the Punjab government, which is running into its third consecutive […]