New World Development Report Repackages Old Ideas

By Kanya D’Almeida WASHINGTON, Apr 11 (IPS) – With over 1.5 billion people living in countries blighted by incessant or recurring violence, the World Bank’s annual World Development Report (WDR), with this year’s focus on how conflict...

Of integrity and integrated corruption

By Prabhat Shunglu New Delhi: “I come from a poor family. The only asset I possess is integrity.” This was the Chief Justice of India (CJI) S H Kapadia in his reply to congratulatory letter sent by former well-known judge V R Krishna Iyer on his...

Walk Like an Egyptian

By Prabhat Shunglu New Delhi: Forty days before anti-Mubarak slogans rented the air at Cairo’s Tahrir Square on January 25, India’s Supreme Court passed a stricture against a Cabinet Minister in the ruling UPA government. The court slammed Mr Vilasrao...

Deportation of Afghan asylum seekers from Australia

By Farhad Arian Summary This paper aims to critically evaluate a newly signed agreement between the Australian government and the government of Afghanistan on returning those Afghan asylum seekers who do not pass the refugee test in Australia. The...

Market will not resolve the environmental crisis: Leonardo Boff

Leonardo Boff Daniela Pastrana interviews LEONARDO BOFF, Brazilian writer and theologian* – Tierramérica MEXICO CITY, Dec 28 (IPS) – “The market is not going to resolve the environmental crisis,” says theologian and environmentalist...

Rich nations’ farm subsidies help big landlords,companies

By Julio Godoy PARIS, Aug 6, 2010 (IPS) – Subsidies for agriculture in the industrialised countries of the world grew again in 2009, benefiting the largest companies and land owners, such as Prince Albert of Monaco and Queen Elizabeth of Britain. The...

Obama victory: Will he seize the moment?

By Praful Bidwai New Delhi: The election of Barack Hussein Obama as the President of the United States has electrified the world community and ignited hope. It is a matter of epochal significance that a Black man will live as the master of the White...

Hindutva’s Violent History in Orissa

BY ANGANA CHATTERJI Anthropologist HINDUTVA’S PRODUCTION of culture and nation is often marked by savagery. On 23 August 2008, Lakshmanananda Saraswati, Orissa’s Hindu nationalist icon, was murdered with four disciples in Jalespeta in Kandhamal...

Manmohan’s tainted victory faciltates alignment with US

BY PRAFUL BIDWAI Manmohan Singh’s tainted victory facilitates India’s alignment with the U.S. and conservative domestic policies, completing the project he launched 17 years ago. INDIAN supporters of a close strategic alliance with the United...