A research finding of the Population Council says that Bangladesh’s population will hit the 28 crore mark by 2051. To his writer, this is patently a scary figure. And since we all love this country so very much, we cannot but be alarmed at the galloping rate of population growth, while all the other development […]
Curtains for Kony
– By Peter Eichstaedt in The Hague (AR No. 167, 14-Apr-08) All dramas have to end. People demand that they do. That could not be more true than with the story of Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. It is time for the fin de la comedie. Only this has not been a […]
The New Media Moguls Talk Politics
On March 28, 2008 at New York University, digital media trailblazers met to talk about how the web is changing American politics. With Jeff Jarvis moderating, Arianna Huffington, Jay Rosen, Micah Sifry and Lisa Tozzi talked about how the 2008 presidential elections have evolved, and what will come next. GroundReport.com produced the event and the […]
UNSC to meet in wake of Jerusalem attack
The UN Security Council is to hold an emergency meeting on the Middle East late Thursday in the wake of the Jerusalem attack which killed eight people, a UN spokeswoman said. Spokeswoman Marie Okabe said the meeting would begin at 7 pm (0000 GMT). Talking to an international news agency, Israel’s UN deputy ambassador Daniel […]
Heroes : Higher than Mountains
The New York Times published a touching tribute to Sir Edmund Hillary titled” When A Mountaintop Might as Well Have Been the Moon” around the same time as articles began appearing in the Indian press about who should get the coveted Bharat Ratna this year. It started with Advani suggesting that the award be given […]
This Season’s Mean Mycoplasma – Sketching Our Turn With Atypical Pneumonia
The hacking cough is dry this morning – as it was last night and the full and mirthless day before. It is a brittle tapping, meted out in brutal increments from a virgin chest cavity – the thinning rap like that of a taut drum prattling in a cold vacuum. My son is eight years […]