Chitral’s troubled Elections Election process in Chitral is over. The polls have laid bare the fault lines in Chitrali society and these do not seem likely to be corrected in the near future. Democracy, honest politics, morality and public interest have suffered grievously in the process. Pakistan People’s Party was eminently placed to […]
American Misanthropes
We can now give “campus rampage” killers and their lot a name: American Misanthropes. What’s unexpectedly unsettling about them is coming to realize (a) we created them, out of a toxic pot of existentialism … and (b) these killers look an awful lot like us. by Donald Croft Brickner So-called “campus rampage” murder […]
Nepal under regressive mafia rule
As soon as the April uprising in 2006 ousted the direct monarchial rule, the Nepalis began to face oil shortage. Most people did not notice it then as it was not very acute. Now the oil shortage has become far acuter than it was 22 months ago. The Seven Party Alliance, now in the government, […]
Cut flower boom in the Philippines
Benguet, one of the coolest places the Philippines can ever bestow, does not only attract visitors because of its variety of tourist attractions like the famour Banaue Rice Terraces and the thousand years-old mummies in caves. Likewise, tourists are drawn to come to Benguet, via Baguio City, the country’s summer capital, because of its thousands […]
RELAIANCE POWER’S INITIATIVE IN DAMAGE CONTROL
After meeting with unprecedented losses, the Reliance Power promoted by Anil Ambani has initiated a major step in damage control by deciding to consider issuance of BONUS SHARES to all categories of investors, excluding the Promoter’s group. For this purpose, the Company has convened a meeting of its Board of Directors to be held on […]
Rethinking Africa’s Unsteady Statehoods
The case of the seemingly intractable tribal mayhem in Kenya, which has so far claimed over 1500 people’s lives, is not an isolated one in Africa. It reflects the failure of the state machinery to blend numerous identities that were grouped together to serve colonial interests into a functional form of nationhood that is based […]
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