The next time one of its publications claims editorial independence, it’ll be a little less credible.
Pearson, the company that owns the Economist, Financial Times and fDi Magazine—an offshoot of the latter—can no longer credibly claim that its publications enjoy editorial independence. It just showed that the proprietors of the company can overrule the decisions of [...]
Social justice is not justice, and it is dangerous and wrong to conflate the two
It’s not out yet, but we are at imminent risk of being drenched by a book on the principle of justice written by an celebrated expert on…economics. Now, no one would give too much credence to a book on nuclear physics [...]
And duh Dilip?
Arundhati Roy asks rhetorically (via Dilip D’Souza who asks inquiringly):
Roy: I think speaking out against the occupation is the bravest thing that a soldier can do. I have always admired the U.S. soldiers who spoke out against the Vietnam War. In fact, in places like India, when people get randomly racist and [...]
Because it is not for them to provide solutions
By Salil Tripathi
[Background: This is Salil's response to the criticism that "human rights folks, at least in India, are terribly context insensitive. In practice, you can't even talk about enjoying human rights (as opposed to possessing them) unless the state is capable of maintaining rule of [...]
Has anyone articulated how the citizen’s militia will be disbanded?
Prakash Singh, a distinguished police officer and a member of an expert group set up by the Planning Commission to study the Naxalite problem, dissents from the group’s conclusions and argues that the Salwa Judum was a “spontaneous movement expressing the resentment of the tribals against [...]
Why proponents of a friendly relations with China undermine their case
M K Bhadrakumar is at it again. He asks if India’s “strategic alliance” (huh? which one?) with the United States
helped to discourage farmers in Vidharbha from taking their own lives in sheer despair, reduce the profound alienation of the people of Jammu & Kashmir or [...]
Where The Acorn interprets the Mahabharata
Continuing the discussion on Naxalism, Gautam Sen points to an op-ed by Nandini Sundar, a sociologist from the Delhi School of Economics, and a member of the Independent Citizen’s Initiative (ICI) that investigated the situation in Chattisgarh in July 2006. Similar to the position the ICI takes in its report, [...]
Some opinions just can’t make it to the People’s Daily of Chennai
The Beijing correspondent of The Hindu can hardly be classified as a critic of the People’s Republic. But when Pallavi Aiyar wrote a piece that compared India and China that showed the latter in rather unfavourable light, she had to publish it in Asia [...]
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