September 2011
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THE RECKONING AMERICA AND THE WORLD A DECADE AFTER... →
August 2011
5 posts
Steve Jobs resigns
The minister of magic steps down
IN A commencement speech to students at Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, advised his audience to avoid being trapped by dogma and to have the courage to follow their hearts and their intuition. “Stay hungry. Stay foolish,” he said as he signed off. By following his own advice, Mr Jobs, who resigned as Apple’s boss on...
I'd rather not be Anna
The Hindu
While his means maybe Gandhian, his demands are certainly not.
If what we’re watching on TV is indeed a revolution, then it has to be one of the more embarrassing and unintelligible ones of recent times. For now, whatever questions you may have about the Jan Lokpal Bill, here are the answers you’re likely to get: tick the box — (a) Vande Mataram (b) Bharat Mata ki Jai (c)...
Hunger in the Horn of Africa
Aug 4th 2011, 17:48 by The Economist online
NEVER again, said the world after the horror Ethiopia’s famine in 1984. And for years famine seemed to have departed Africa. But after the worst drought in 60 years, it has returned. Northern Kenya, south-eastern Ethiopia, southern Somalia and Djibouti have been worst hit. The UN estimates that more than 12m people in the Horn of Africa need...
The day Hiroshima turned into hell
Sixty-six years after the atomic bomb was dropped, survivor Keijiro Matsushima tells of a day of death and destruction.
Cajsa Wikstrom Last Modified: 06 Aug 2011 08:58
The so-called A-Bomb Dome was preserved as a reminder of the devastation the bomb caused [GALLO/GETTY]
Sixty-six years ago, Hiroshima was turned into a burning inferno as the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on the...
Drones in Pakistan
Out of the blue
A growing controversy over the use of unmanned aerial strikes
Jul 30th 2011 | ISLAMABAD |
This programme does not exist, and Pakistan does not help it
ONE day in March an American drone circled above Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal area, zeroed in on a gathering of village men, some of whom were armed, and unleashed three missiles in quick succession. It turned out to be a...
July 2011
20 posts
Chronicle of a famine foretold Did the world...
ON JULY 27th, after days of toing and froing, the first aid flight at last landed in Mogadishu, capital of famine-hit Somalia. It carried 10 tonnes of plumpy nut, enough to reverse malnutrition in 3,500 children. The mission seems late. After the 1985 Ethiopian famine America’s aid agency set up a Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) to give warning of disasters. It has been...
“Silver bullet” for the U.S. economy?
Editor’s Note: Michael McCarthy is the Managing Editor of The Globalist. The following post was originally published in that world affairs online magazine.
By Michael McCarthy, The Globalist
During the 1990s, 21 million new jobs were created in the United States. After reaching a peak of 7.8% in June 1992, the unemployment rate declined steadily to 4% by the end of 1999, and during the...
In Pictures: Norway attacks Scores killed after...
At least 91 people have been killed in two attacks in Norway: a bomb blast that went off near a government building housing the prime minister’s office in Oslo, followed by a shooting incident at a youth camp near the city. The explosion in the Norwegian capital, which took place at 3:20pm local time, blew out most of the windows of a 17-storey building housing Jens Stoltenberg’s...
England v India: MS Dhoni's journey from ticket...
The Indian captain, MS Dhoni, says that the experience of leading his team out at Lord’s on Thursday will be an honour to rank with anything he has achieved in his glorious career.
National pride: India captain MS Dhoni misses his homeland and his parents but says duty to his country comes first Photo: ACTION IMAGES
“It’s obviously big, leading 15 people who have the expectation of 1.2...
Eclectic architecture, exquisite features T. S....
DRAMATIC FUSION: The picture shows the gopuram over the eastern entrance of the temple, the Sivelipura (the covered corridor) with a few hundreds of Deepa Lakshmi sculptures and carvings on granite pillars, and the vimana of a few shrines. The gopuram and the Sivelipura reflect the Dravidian architectural influence of the Tamil country in the temple. — Photo: S. GOPAKUMAR
The Sree...
The long road ahead
It was exactly 31 years ago that India emerged as a nation with an independent launch capability. On that occasion, the Indian Space Research Organisation’s SLV-3 rocket, which stood just 23 metres high, succeeded in putting a 35-kg Rohini satellite into orbit. Since then, the country’s spaceport at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota has seen 32 more launches of...
Somalia drought: UN delivers aid to Islamist areas
Somalis are fleeing to Ethiopia, Kenya and the capital, Mogadishu, in search of food
The UN has made its first aid delivery to drought victims in areas of Somalia controlled by al-Qaeda-linked militants since they lifted an aid ban.
UN children organisation’s Rozanne Chorlton said al-Shabab had given UN workers unhindered access and hoped this would encourage other agencies.
It comes as...
Response to Mumbai Blasts Suggests Lack of...
By MEGHA BAHREE And GEETA ANAND
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A Bhartiya Janta Party activist holds up a candle Friday to pay homage to the recent Mumbai blast victims, at Bhadrakali Temple in Ahmedabad.
MUMBAI—Fresh details have emerged about Mumbai’s response to blasts that rocked the city two days ago that suggest India’s financial capital isn’t...
Somalia Drought: 300 Children Left For Dead In...
DADAAB, Kenya — Malnutrition stole most of Habibo’s eyesight and left the 1-year-old close to death. Medical personnel tried to pump life back into the toddler, but she only moved when her stomach fitfully spasmed.
As her mother tried to feed her, her frail hands tried to resist the small cup placed between her lips.
“My prayer is ‘God, heal my daughter,’”...
Raped Afghan women have no hope of justice
Most women in Afghanistan are unaware of their own legal rights, and lack judicial support when trying to defend them Some 90 per cent of Afghan women face some form of domestic violence - many are forced into early marriage, kidnapped, or raped with no hope of justice
In December 2010, in a small house located in Sarbande Chakush village in the Juzjan province of Afghanistan, a 14-year-old...
Christian Choate, Boy Who Died Locked In Cage,...
Records of the Indiana Department of Child Services reveal that Christian Choate, a boy who authorities claim lived locked in a cage and died from savage abuse, wrote letters describing his situation and saying that he wanted to die.
According to the Chicago Tribune, DCS visited with the Choate family in Gary, Indiana more than a dozen times starting in 1999, investigating allegations of...
Suspect in Mutilation of an Afghan Woman Is Freed
Aisha, a young Afghan woman, whose nose and ears were cut off under orders of the Taliban for running away from a forced marriage.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The only suspect arrested in the case of a woman mutilated for leaving her husband has been released, local Afghan officials and the woman’s father said Monday, in a move that has angered human rights advocates and the woman’s family.
The...
How 10,000 People Keep a Secret
THERE are picnics, and then there are picnics.
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DRESS CODE Notre Dame was one of two sites for Paris’s Dîner en Blanc. Guests, all in white, brought their own tables and food.
Three weeks ago, in the golden light of an early-summer evening, thousands of Parisians dressed entirely in white converged on two of the city’s most picturesque locations...
"The Karachi" I Remember
When Pakistan became an independent state in 1947, its first capital city was Karachi. It was the first port of call for international shipping in an age when aviation was used by few.
Over the years, it attracted both the educated elite and workers in search of employment. Many decided to make it their home. When Pakistan split from India, a great number of Muslims migrating to the new country...
Mohammad Ali Jinnah
“The light of the controversy generated by Jaswant Singh’s book, ‘Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence’. we reproduce The Hindu ’s editorial of September 13, 1948 titled ‘Mr. Jinnah .’ It was published two days after the death of the founder of Pakistan”
The Hindu
‘At his bitterest he never forgot that firm friendship between India and Pakistan was...
Why the End of the Space Shuttle Will Hurt Workers...
When it began, it inspired a young president to dream of putting a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. And now, we are all waking up, because that dream is over.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) agency, formed in 1958, saw its final space shuttle launch on July 8, bringing an end for now to NASA’s mission of sending people into outer space. There’s...
