When a CEO holds a press conference and a company’s stock price goes down 20% that CEO needs to go. This should be a basic rule enforced by the Securities & Exchange Commission. After all, capitalism is emotionally detached and doesn’t tolerant value destruction. The Board of Hewlett-Packard followed this rule of thumb when it […]
An Analysis of “Suicide by Emile Durkeim”
by Phin Upham In 1897 the scholar Emile Durkheim wrote Suicide one of the first examples of rigorous sociology. It used the suicide rates in Europe to illustrate the importance of community ties to behavior. To this day it stands as a classic in sociology and has had profound impact on the way economics, […]
‘She would be better off dead’
Recently,the attorney-general of India urged the Supreme Court to permit Aruna Shanbaug, a Mumbai nurse who has been in a coma for over 38 years, to live in her present state and not stop food to end her life. Aruna, a former nurse, has been brain dead and paralysed for the last 36 years after […]
DELHI-GATE: THE SCAM THAT ALSO BETRAYED EELAM TAMILS/TAMILS IN TAMIL NADU
DELHI-GATE: THE SCAM THAT ALSO BETRAYED EELAM TAMILS/TAMILS IN TAMIL NADU The Delhi-gate (the sum total of the scams haunting Delhi today) is creating conditions more serious than what the Bofors+ scams created in India in the 1980s. With Bofors, Rajiv pioneered a permissive version of ‘secularism’ unrestrained by dharmic (moral) considerations for scams to […]
DELHI-GATE: WILL UPA- CONGRESS SURVIVE A BOFORS AFTERMATH LIKE ELECTORAL BACKLASH
DELHI-GATE: WILL UPA- CONGRESS SURVIVE A BOFORS AFTERMATH LIKE ELECTORAL BACKLASH The Delhi-gate (the sum total of the scams haunting Delhi today) is creating conditions more serious than what the Bofors+ scams created in India in the 1980s. With Bofors, Rajiv pioneered a permissive version of ‘secularism’ unrestrained by dharmic (moral) considerations for […]
The Day the World Stood Still (September 11th remembered)
(written Sept 12, 2009) On September 11th, 2001 I woke up to a new world; we all did. As each anniversary has passed I have tried to take a step back to see how the world has been doing since; and how I fit into it all. This year, I went to a memorial […]
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