Arthshastra

As we read about the world’s richest man’s now almost annual trip to India and his commitment to eradicate disease and provide support for education an obvious question to ask is where do our own billionaires stand in comparison to Mr. Gates. I think the media owes us an annual report card regarding the social [...]

Turkey is the only country in the world with less support for evolution than the U.S. (From Nicholas Kristoff’s column in today’s Times).

M.R. Kutty was killed by Taliban in Afghanistan. Behind all the bickering on whether Pakistan was or wasn’t behind the attacks, an essential question still remains unanswered. What forces the Kuttys of the world to leave behind their families in search of livelihood to all these dangerous places? The Prime Minister has announced an aid [...]

Read this in one of the obituaries of Peter Drucker. It is surprising how much of it still holds true and also how much of it does not, thanks to two people, Manmohan Singh and the man who gave him a free hand, Narsimha Rao. From “India and ‘Appropriate’ Technology,” March 1, 1979: No one [...]

Oh the depths to which our politicians would stoop to get votes. Hindustan Times is reporting today about posters in Mumbai that congratulated Margaret Alva, the head of Congress in Maharashtra, on winning the United Nations’ Nelson Mandela award for minorities’ empowerment. One slight flaw though – the UN does not give out any such [...]