Sep 17 2007
Even as the problem of global warming gets more alarming by the day, countries are thinking up ingenious ways to avoid the inevitable - a cut in the emission of greenhouse gases. I cannot help being reminded by the current discourse on this issue, of...
Aug 23 2007
Persuasion works; but works especially well if you are persuading with a loaded gun. That was one of the lesson that Al Capone taught. The present generation of politicians seem to have imbibed that lesson rather well. First the US moved its 5th fleet...
Aug 21 2007
The war in Iraq has all the looks of becoming the biggest disaster for the US since the Vietnam war. Its overwhelming air superiority did win it the war, but from then on it has just been going down. The US lost the moral high ground which it had...
Aug 14 2007
You would have read about the ominous rumblings in the US’ Sub prime market. Bourses across the world including those in India have dipped in response, and trade pundits are saying the worst is still to come. So the major question on your mind...
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Aug 14 2007
No city in India so juxtaposes the contemporary and the historic in quite the same manner that Hyderabad does. You visit it perhaps because it is Chandrababu Naidu’s famed ‘Cyberabad’, or perhaps to savor its equally famed biryani....
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