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Joseph Conrad in his classic Heart of Darkness once and for all showed how Africa will always be the focus of colonial exploitation. First it was Europe, now it is Russia and China. They do not care for the people but only the oil and gas there.
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Kapil Sibal, Minister of Science and Technology and Earth Sciences wants to see India as a knowledge-power house and so was there a CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) meet and gushes about knowledge including the awardees like Bharti Airtel, Eureka...
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Charles Dickens had continuously written about the plight of the English children in many of his novels. Little Oliver Twist in the novel Oliver Twist was routinely abused for asking for just another helping of watery porridge from the warden of the...
A nation which hates its own sons is lost. And we are not talking of any ordinary person, but of the legendary Imran Khan. A few years ago the whole of Pakistan went gaga over this man’s cricketing. Now Pakistanis are mute spectators when...
Doctors suffer from the God-complex. Michael Foucault, the twentieth century iconoclast had shown in his famous book Discipline and Punish how and why medicos think they own they are gods. Foucault pointed out that doctors feel they know us inside...
The West hates us for the caste system. Yet it has its own system of extreme and worse discrimination. Gypsy kids like the Roma children are not allowed to study in mainstream Czechoslovakian schools. Now the European Court of Human Rights has ruled...
As a nation are we getting increasingly greedy?
The Times of India reports of a survey which presents some stark truths.
We are buying more, and often buying unnecessary things. We are eating out more, never mind the cholesterol or the diabetes. We...
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While Harry Potter is worshipped by kids everywhere, we have thousands of street-kids in Africa accused of witch-craft. The International Herald Tribune reports that in Angola, Congo and in some other African countries kids are being beaten...
Since students all over the world have a right to be violent, they are easy prey to all sorts of extremist-provocations. Also like all students everywhere, this gives them an opportunity to avoid studying. Iraqi students are using their sectarian...
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