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Tharoor vs Chidambaram!

Tuesday, 29 December 2009 14:49 by Bala Murali Krishna

Contrary to many others, I have not been an admirer of Shashi Tharoor’s tweets. Some of them are downright silly (“…cursed my ex-wife in Malayalam!”), and many are inappropriate for somebody who is part of the establishment. But I like his recent tweets on the new visa rule ... [More]

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Tags:		shashi tharoor, p chidambaram, s m krishna, sonia gandhi, rahul gandhi, manmohan singh, george w bush, david coleman headley, shah rukh khan
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Will Karnataka’s politicians ever grow up?

Tuesday, 22 December 2009 16:55 by Bala Murali Krishna

It’s the good old bad new airport in Bangalore all over again. What was to have been the Bangalorean’s longstanding dream come true is today his worst nightmare. Miles away from the city, with improper transportation, and no mass transportation system, the Devanahalli airport is the wors... [More]

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Is Kasab’s story Bollywood’s dream plot?

Saturday, 19 December 2009 11:31 by Bala Murali Krishna

Whatever you might say of Ajmal Amir Kasab’s stunning turnaround yesterday, it truly is worthy of Bollywood. If I were Ram Gopal Verma or Mahesh Bhatt, I would be kicking myself in anger, or envy, or simply be writing out the borrowed script as fast as I could. Maybe Kasab is the innocent star... [More]

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Tags:		ajmal amir kasab, ajmal amir kasab, 26/11, 26/11, mumbai, mumbai, ram gopal verma, mahesh bhatt, ram gopal verma, mahesh bhatt
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Can Singh, Obama swing the climate change debate?

Thursday, 17 December 2009 17:11 by Bala Murali Krishna

I lived in the US for over six years and still meet many Americans. Most are well-meaning, many express genuine empathy for the poor, many are generous with charity. Many believe their country is blessed with the fruits of the earth and many believe their lifestyles are often wasteful, needlessly so... [More]

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Tags:		copenhagen, manmohan singh, barack obama, climate change
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Is microfinance really working?

Tuesday, 15 December 2009 16:00 by Bala Murali Krishna

For skeptics of for-profit microfinance, an article in today’s Wall Street Journal by Ketaki Gokhale brings some redemption. I can’t remember another article on microfinance with such sharp insights and a good set of numbers without the spin from venture capitalists bankrolling the for-p... [More]

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A million mutinies now?

Friday, 11 December 2009 14:06 by Bala Murali Krishna

So, are we going to see a million mutinies now? That is a term the writer V.S. Naipaul used to characterise the divisions in the India of the 1980s. But many of those separatist movements have been run into the ground by the governments or defeated by time. But the Congress Party’s sudden e... [More]

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Game theory, Jairam Ramesh and Copenhagen

Monday, 7 December 2009 16:49 by Bala Murali Krishna

Last week, a one-minute movie co-produced by my colleague won a British Council award and is to be screened at Copenhagen during the fortnight-long climate change summit. It is titled, “My Paper Boat,” and traces the concerns of a boy who plied his paper boat on a neighbourhood lake. ... [More]

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Bhopal gas disaster: Collective blot on our nation

Thursday, 3 December 2009 12:13 by Bala Murali Krishna

In our country, we are used to indifference and apathy, not to mention miscarriage of justice and outright exploitation. Most of us can come up with long lists of what we consider the most egregious cases but it is reasonable to count the Bhopal gas disaster to be among the worst, if not the worst. ... [More]

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