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Articles with tag: burma

The Monks and Realpolitik

Salil Tripathi   Oct 3, 2007   interacts: 10

Monks with prayers on their lips, and students with hopes in their hearts, march towards pagodas, as soldiers armed by the Chinese beat them. And the world's largest democracy, India, does nothing.

The Orange Monks

kashkin dabruski   Sep 30, 2007   interacts: 1

They move together
Unarmed and in silence

The Placebo Effect of Economic Boycotts

Bhaskar Dasgupta   Apr 16, 2006   interacts: 4

Economic boycotts are very blunt weapons and useless in terms of satisfying the actual objectives, but as I said, they offer some palliative to the chattering classes

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