Logical Thinking

India Going to Crap?

2009-03-04T22:39:00.001+05:30

In the shadow of its new suburbs, torrid growth and 300- million-plus-strong middle class, India is struggling with a sanitation emergency. From the stream in Devi's village to the nation's...

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A Humanitarian's worst nightmare:Zimbabwe

2008-12-23T03:02:00.001+05:30

NZVERE, Zimbabwe Along a road in Matabeleland, barefoot children stuff their pockets with corn kernels that have blown off a truck as if the brownish bits, good only for animal feed in normal...

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Recipe for Famine

2008-12-16T11:28:00.000+05:30

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=specialreport&srnum=2 Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- The bag of green peas, stamped "USAID From the American People," took more than six months to reach...

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Flunking the Intelligence Test

2008-12-01T11:55:00.001+05:30

Flunking the Intelligence Test The only real question about the Mumbai attack was just when it would come. Sudip Mazumdar NEWSWEEK Published Nov 29, 2008 | Updated: 12:25 p.m....

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Fixing Indian education

2008-11-27T01:00:00.001+05:30

Private sector education entrepreneurs experiencing "schadenfreude" (German for joy in other people's misery) in the Manipal group's confrontation with the medical education regulator have much to...

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India's Colleges Battle a Thicket of Red Tape

2008-11-13T09:37:00.001+05:30

MUMBAI -- P.M. D'Mello, the principal of a pharmacy college here, wants to double student enrollment, fill the empty space in her building and help remedy the shortage of skilled workers that...

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Myopic policies: creation of world-class universities

2008-10-23T17:47:00.001+05:30

The government will create 12 Central universities, adding to the existing 18. This is a mammoth undertaking, for which Rs. 3,280 crore (about $73 million) has been allocated from the budget....

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Reform needs some 'vested interests'

2008-10-04T03:31:00.000+05:30

The same week that Singapore hosted the first Formula 1 race under floodlights and on its city's streets, Indian newspapers carried more depressing reports and photos about the state of the roads...

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Why Europeans are getting taller and taller-and Americans aren't

2008-09-29T21:15:00.001+05:30

When Vincent van Gogh was thirty-one years old, in the fall of 1883, he travelled to the bleak moors of northern Holland and stayed at a tavern in the village of Stuifzand. The local countryside...

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Echo of Moscow

2008-09-16T19:44:00.001+05:30

In the land of the Soviets, the voice of the Kremlin was everywhere, an omnipresent reality-via-radio that long preceded Orwell's dystopia. Lenin and Trotsky fomented revolution primarily in...

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India: Banana democracy

2008-09-11T11:50:00.000+05:30

The Olympics proved China is a dictatorship that achieves, Singur shows why India remains a curio to the world. As coincidences go, Sunday, the 24th of August 2008 will always stay in mind as...

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Plight of the Little Emperors

2008-08-25T04:04:00.001+05:30

When Dawei Liu was growing up in the coastal city of Tai'an during the 1990s, all of his classmates95 percent of whom were only childrenreceived plenty of doting parental support. One student,...

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China in Africa: Young Workers, Deadly Mines

2008-08-24T14:35:00.000+05:30

Adon Kalenga works seven days a week collecting minerals from the ground with his bare hands. He is 13 years old and lives in Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has no home...

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Air-conditioning: Our Cross to Bear

2008-08-21T17:24:00.001+05:30

When it's hot and humid out and the air-conditioner's not running, America suffers. Babies break out in rashes, couples bicker, computers go haywire. In much of the nation, an August power outage...

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California's Potemkin Environmentalism

2008-08-06T11:11:00.001+05:30

In January 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger stood before the California legislature in Sacramento and delivered his fourth State of the State address since his improbable 2003 election. It was...

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Electro-Shock Therapy

2008-07-28T23:44:00.001+05:30

Last year, while he was working in Germany as an engineer for General Motors, Andrew Farah got a call from a senior engineer in Detroit asking him to come home. Why? A car. A special car. Farah...

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Hey, It's A Vast Conspiracy

2008-07-19T08:40:00.000+05:30

CPM's Stalinist ideology leads to a warped view of the world Gautam Adhikari It was a conspiracy, no less, a dire, globally networked plot. In an extraordinary piece of deduction, Sitaram...

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The Declining Value Of Your College Degree

2008-07-18T23:28:00.001+05:30

A four-year college degree, seen for generations as a ticket to a better life, is no longer enough to guarantee a steadily rising paycheck. Just ask Bea Dewing. After she earned a...

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Dissident's Tale of Epic Escape From Iran's Vise

2008-07-13T14:08:00.001+05:30

After three days on the run, Ahmad Batebi picked his way down a rocky slope to the stream that marked Iran's border with Iraq. His Kurdish guides, who had led Mr. Batebi, an Iranian dissident,...

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A Danish community's victory over carbon emissions

2008-06-30T22:49:00.001+05:30

Jørgen Tranberg is a farmer who lives on the Danish island of Samsø. He is a beefy man with a mop of brown hair and an unpredictable sense of humor. When I arrived at his house, one gray morning...

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No Babies

2008-06-29T23:32:00.000+05:30

IT WAS A SPECTACULAR LATE-MAY AFTERNOON IN SOUTHERN ITALY,but the streets of Laviano a gloriously situated hamlet ranged across a few folds in the mountains of the Campania region were...

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The Bubble

2008-06-17T13:07:00.001+05:30

Washpost has published a 3 part series on the housing bubble. An interesting and simple explanation of all the financial monkey business that went on for a while. A partially similar series,...

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The Reign of Thuggery

2008-06-12T08:49:00.001+05:30

The blood boils when one hears the words mugabe or mbeki. Certainly wish the US would bomb Mugabe to kingdom come.. F&*%ing bastards. On a clea r spring afternoon in Harare in mid-May, South...

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Cracking Open

2008-06-02T02:00:00.001+05:30

ON HIS 18TH DAY OF FREEDOM, Michael Short awakened before dawn. In prison, corrections officers had paced the halls at night, jingling keys and shining flashlights. Now Mike slept fitfully, even in...

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The Lawyers' Crusade

2008-06-01T11:57:00.001+05:30

In April, on the highway outside the little Punjabi town of Renala Khurd, Aitzaz Ahsan was waylaid by a crowd of seemingly deranged lawyers. The advocates, who wore black suits, white shirts and...

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