Beginning in the 1980s, the U.S.-led World Bank tightened its grip on Haitian economic policy. Essentially, it decided that the dysfunctional Haitian elite should encourage international investment in ...

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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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The recent widespread communal violence in Gujarat has shocked the world. The UN Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson has also voiced her deep concern. People from all walks of life in India have ...

I’m not one of those who scribble blunt little mustaches on pictures of politicians I dislike, but here I make some uncomfortable and I believe accurate observations comparing personality and ...

The 4th of July is Independence Day for the United States of America and commemorates the 4 July 1776 Declaration of Independence for America, the key passage of which is “ We hold these truths to be ...

It was business as usual in the infamous Kamathipura lane - prostitutes were busy preparing for the long night that laid ahead, the pimps were luring customers to the buildings, and the lanes thronged ...

From November 9-December 1, 2015, Chennai city and its outlying areas, which are part of Kanchipuram and Thiruvallur districts received continuous and very heavy rain. The city was flooded at least ...

CLR James' Beyond a Boundary is considered the best book on any sport ever written. The book is not a literary masterpiece, one reads the book and begins to wonder what might be the reason for such ...

Book Review: The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India – Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements by Jugdep Chima (New Delhi: SAGE Publications), 2010; pp ix – 315, Rs. 750. Anyone familiar ...