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Irene
Khan - To honour and protect (Essay) - We
are at a moment in history when human rights may be devalued and marginalised
by considerations of security and culture, writes the Secretary general
of Amnesty International |
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Y.K.
Hamied - Trading in death (Essay) - The global pharma patent
system to which India now subscribes denies the poor access to healthcare
and curtails their right to life, says the chairman of Cipla, one
of India's largest pharmaceutical companies |
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Rehman
Sobhan - Terms of engagement (Essay) - The lesson to be
drawn from Asia’s varying experiences with globalisation negates the
view of the Washington consensus, says the Chairman of the Board of
Grameen Bank, Bangladesh — one size does not fit all |
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Roman
Grynberg - People? What people? (Essay) - Globalisation
has freed up goods and capital but kept people in chains, writes the
Deputy Director of Economic Affairs, Commonwealth Secretariat, London.
Both third world labour and first world markets have lost out in the
process |
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Vinay
Lal - Home truths and McData (Essay) - Ideas, beliefs and
knowledge systems have globalised themselves more successfully than
Coca-Cola and McDonald’s |
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Susan
Leubuscher - How green was my fig leaf (Essay) - International
standards do not call for enforcement and cannot halt the global destruction
of the environment |
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Amit
Dasgupta - For a kinder, gentler notion (Essay) - Globalisation
that does not include development as a collective moral responsibility
is an idea doomed to failure |
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Kamal
Siddiqi - Losing out (Essay) - Inadequately industrialised
and with a government disinterested in human development, Pakistan
— like most of South Asia — has not benefited from globalisation |
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Suchita
Vemuri - Come into my parlour (Sitrep) - Business process
outsourcing is like slapstick comedy, says Suchita Vemuri. You can
never be sure who will fall down and who will pick themselves up |
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Manjit
Bawa - The colours of global violence (Essay) - The celebrated
painter hopes that even in the time of globalised terror, sanity will
finally prevail |
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Kamala
Das - The pretenders (Poetry) |
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Taslima
Nasreen - The limit (Poetry, translated from the
Bengali) |
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Uday
Prakash - Pontoon bridge (Poetry,
translated from the Hindi) |
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Kamal
Vora - The wall (Poetry, translated from the Gujarati) |
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H.S.
Shiva Prakash - The wailing of Bhootanatha (Poetry,
translated from the kannada) |
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Neelabh
- Change (Poetry, translated from the Hindi) |
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Hemant
Divate - Butterflies (Poetry, translated from the
Marathi) |
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Sukrita
Paul Kumar - Black crop (Poetry) |
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M.
Mohankumar - Vital statistics (Poetry) |
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Tapas
Bandyopadhyaya - Postscript (Poetry) |
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Nasima
Aziz - The blame consultant (Poetry) |
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Evelyne
Accad - My sister, myself (Fiction, translated
from the French) |
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Nabaneeta
Dev Sen - Knot on the Net (Fiction, translated from the
Bengali) |
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Najmul
Hasan Rizvi - Hands for sale (Fiction, translated from
the Uurdu) |
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Parthipan
- The island (Fiction, translated from the Tamil) |
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Akimun
Rahman - Bangladesh (Fiction, translated from the Bengali) |
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Vilas
Sarang - A rare opportunity (Fiction, translated
from the Marathi) |
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B.
Murali - Arthashastra (Fiction, translated from
the Malayalam) |
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Antonio
Graceffo - Lunch with the Major (Fiction) |
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Advertising
globalisation (Review) - A.S. Panneerselvan
is startled by Jagdish Bhagwati’s confident but fuzzy defence of globalisation |
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Mind
the gap (Review) - Parsa Venkateshwar Rao
Jr sees
how geography alters meaning as he reads the Keywords series |
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Asian
values (Review) - Pamela Philipose
evaluates the latest response to the identity crisis of South Asian
social science |
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One
long adda (Review) - Mrinal Sen’s memoir is
as chatty and conversational as the man himself, says Amita Malik |
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Two
women of Hyderabad (Review) - Laila Tyabji
compares two accounts of coming of age in Hyderabad, separated by
half a century |
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Curious
conclusions (Review) - A.J. Philip
looks at some recent work of the apologists of the right, and decides
that he cannot look the other way |
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PLUS:
short reviews of work by V.S. Naipaul, Tabish Khair and Nanni Singh
and Prabuddha Dasgupta |