From Marx to Mao to Jintao

The world's eyes are focused on China today as Beijing plays host to the 2008 Summer International Olympics Games.

Revolutionary for Sale

Clothing plastered with the portrait of socialist revolutionary Che Guevara is possibly one of the oddest and most self contradictory phenomena's of the 21st century.

Local Knowledge, Capital, and Social Change in the Age of Globalization

Whether it is selling vegetables or tourism, the local agent does not, by definition, possess anything that cannot be brought from elsewhere in the globe.

Old Capitalism is Dead, Long Live New Capitalism

When ‘they’ the Walmarts, replaced the family business, some writhed, some cried but we all let it happen because we felt richer when we bought a $2 item from Walmart that elsewhere cost $20

The State of the World and other ruminations

In the face of a Natural Disaster

The scenes in New Orleans, after Hurricane Katrina had struck, have been devastating. As an outsider, it was a shock to see that even a super power could not do much in the face of a natural disaster.

God-shaped Hole: Contemporary Relevance of the Spiritual

From a world of certainty and solace provided by God– in the next world if not this one– the 19th century sciences, philosophy and political ideology plunged humanity into a crisis of faith and culture that has continued into the present times

Black & White

You are the CEO of a modest little Oil company, you’ve just been told of a new oilfield discovery in a little country in the middle-east ... What do you do? Call the Emir, the ecology nut with very conservative opinions on modernisation? Or, do you

Almost...

a late night walk, a scare and muses on injustice

Of Damn Pakis and Deregulation

Is the Pakistani public not yet mature and responsible enough to be introduced to a deregulated source of Information? If it is, then how can a censorship be justified? If it is not, what is the pride in bringing X-hundred cities online? Pornography on th

Law, Development and How Not To Do It

Think of the world of investments as a beauty contest