By yet again showing its disdain for free speech, the Indian government has done itself a big dishonor.read more

Here’s a trend to watch in the coming year: the rise of new economic powers.read more

The founder and director of Alternative Radio arrived at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi last Friday only to be sent back to the United States on the next plane.read more

Vandana Shiva is a burst of creative energy and intellectual power. Born in India in 1952, she is one of the Third World’s most eloquent and passionate voices on the environment, women’s rights, and sustainable development. She directs the Research Foundation for Science, Technology, and Ecology in New Delhi. In 1993 she received the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize.
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Amartya Sen of India won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1998 for his pioneering work on development issues. He has focused attention on the social sources of famine, poverty, and inequality, and he has highlighted the need for women’s empowerment.
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More than a decade after she burst onto the world literary scene with The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy is again working on a novel. She wouldn’t say much about it, other than that Kashmir figures in it. She once told me, “Fiction is the truest thing there ever was.” But she is also drawn to write about politics.read more

Gandhi would perhaps be exasperated and happy—both at the same time.read more

If a cricket match can make things better even by just a bit, let us have more batsmen facing down bowlers.read more

A high court decision risks opening up old wounds between Hindus and Muslims.read more

It was a tough assignment. Not as loathsome as tracking down a Nazi war criminal. But definitely not as simple as dialing up your average retired CEO and asking him to reflect on his career.read more

President Obama needs to resolve the problem of India and Pakistan before he can have any hope of success in Afghanistan.

In his speech on Tuesday, he wasn’t forthright about the nature of the problem.read more

Dow Chemical needs to completely own up to its responsibility as Union Carbide’s parent company. The victims of Bhopal and their families have waited far too long and suffered far too much.read more

The chief magistrate of Bhopal just called for the arrest of Warren Anderson, the former executive of Union Carbide, for his role in the 1984 disasters.

The Progressive wrote about Anderson being on the lam in the United States back in 2006.read more

The deals that the Obama Administration is pushing will be worth $20 billion to U.S. corporations if they go through. The damage that they cause could be incalculable, however.read more

Like others before it, this was a voyeuristic look at the Third World’s poor and vulnerable. There was no sense of history, no glimpse of peoples’ struggles and really no dignity.read more