Affordable housing: a road to economic recovery on January 4, 2018The dignity of occupants is an important factor in the design process of the bright, cheerful colours of Pearcedale Parade in Melbourne, Australia which was funded by the Brumby Labour government and Yarra Community Housing. It was constructed with the hope that the finished project would change the way people think about community housing. The […]
Kenya on economic crossroads on November 3, 2017An enlightening Kenyan proverb says: a man stung by a bee does not destroy all the beehives. Kenyan politicians need to take a cue from this ancient wisdom. In their unrelenting efforts to deprecate each other, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party misused the legislative body and coerced the highest institute of justice rendering it subservient […]
What is really going on in Kenya? on October 25, 2017Kenya represents an international hub. This may explain why world leaders were quick to congratulate President Kenyatta on a victory that had been nullified by the SC The Burden of Democracy, a book by Indian political thinker Pratap Bhanu Mehta, could well have been written with Kenya’s current electoral impasse in mind. For the latter […]
Dynamics of public movement in mainstream Indian politics on December 30, 2013The wickedly innovative publicity stunts by upcoming politicians, commuting by public transport to taking oaths for public offices, cosmetic efforts by veteran political parties sacking lethargic legislatures from important ministries to manipulating clean-chits for their inhuman atrocities meted out to citizens, Indian politics is experiencing a tectonic shift featuring both conventional and contemporary factors. The […]
Bhendi Bazaar: an oasis of economic evolution on July 5, 2013From being an irrigation tract in its early days as mentioned in the Maharashtra State Gazette as “In the north-west of Dongri there existed a plantation of thespesia populnia or bhendi which has given its name as Bhendi Bazaar” to being developed by the British to resettle communities affected by the Great Mumbai Fire that […]
Pitfalls and perils of politicised food insecurity on June 27, 2013Disturbingly provocative as it may sound, it is amazing how national and international institutions and governments make use of human hunger for their own survival. Approximately 870 million people, or one in eight of the people in the world are challenged by hunger, of which 852 million people are from the underdeveloped countries. This comes […]