Tag Archives: governance
Curious Bends – Hudhud, fewer cyclone deaths, population control and more
Curious Bends is a weekly newsletter science, tech. and data news from around South Asia. Akshat Rathi and I curate it. It costs nothing to sign up. If you’d like a sample, check out the one below. India went from 15,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Cyclone Hudhud, economic optimism, governance, mental health, population control
Comments Off on Curious Bends – Hudhud, fewer cyclone deaths, population control and more
de Tocqueville & the news
That the switch from newspapers to digital handheld devices – for the purpose of sourcing all my news – is limited only by my comfort-level with technology is telling of some shortcoming of the print industry. The changing journalistic scene … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, governance, media theory, Neil Postman, news, print journalism
Comments Off on de Tocqueville & the news
A note on the Nobel Peace Prize, 2012
Across six decades, the European Union has stressed repeatedly on the importance of democracy and human rights. In the process, it set up a system that offered great humanitarian, and therefore popular, benefits to nations willing to join it. In … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged European Union, governance, Nobel Peace Prize, peace
Comments Off on A note on the Nobel Peace Prize, 2012