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Packing a ‘lota’
What will you do if you get a 'lota' as a gift? You may ridicule the sender's choice. While there are different uses to a 'lota', we generally care little about it and treat it with veiled contempt, since city dwellers scorn at anything remotely looking like a villager's contraption. Moreover, it doesn't cost you more than a few rupees. I received this gift in a well-wrapped package from the Design Institute of India, Indore, which is offering a graduate and post-graduate course in design sta...
Media has a responsibility
Social scientists may be able to answer this — what is the trigger point for a peaceful but angry procession to turn violent? The police, because of their experience in handling processions that are peaceful but turn ugly later, may actually be in a better position to figure out when pent up fury bursts open. If they knew that for sure, they would probably be able to turn things around. And the proof that there is no clear cut answer lies in the recent violence in some parts of the stat...
Maoist witch hunt
In the face of rising Maoist violence and brutality in the backward eastern states of India, the natural question is what would be the best way to contain the Maoists. The home minister P Chidambaram would like to have a law-an-order approach, meeting force with ever more force. Thus his policy of 'operation green hunt', a misnomer that does not say who or what is being hunted and seems to imply that it is all for the good of the natural forests that still abound in the areas of Maoist ...
Bad show
The UPA government efforts to mark the centenary of International Women's Day by passing the historic legislation for reserving 33 per cent of seats in Parliament and in state assemblies for women hasn't quite followed the script. It met with not just determined, but unruly, opposition from the Hindi heartland parties like the Samajwadi Party (SP), Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and Janata Dal (United) in the two houses. One of the members snatched the papers of the bill from Rajya Sabha c...
China’s world order?
The China-US relationship will be the pivot of the post-unipolar world order. China is the world's largest auto market, the biggest exporter of merchandise and will account for the largest growth in world trade for some time. The US remains the finance and consumption capital of the world but the new production capital is China. It is dependent no longer on US markets, managerial know-how and technology, nor on US power as a counterweight to a Soviet threat. A dominant player in setting energ...

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