Indian
historical linguistics in the Economist.
A
lecture by Lant Pritchett titled Folk and the formula -
Pathways to capable states.
Anil
Padmanabhan on Myanmar in Mint.
A great
travel story from Nagaland.
Trampling on the individual in India:
Datta in the EPW, and
IP, on the attack on a blogger by the Times of India.
I was in Los Angeles when
the Rodney King
incident took place, and I thought to myself that when video
cameras become ubiquitous in India, it will really make a difference
to the behaviour of the police. One is
seeing some
examples of this, and the exponential rise of video-capable
phones will help. In Canada, some are carrying this
further: mounting
a camera on every policeman. Also
see Tarun
Wadhwa in Forbes.
Who
will audit the RBI? by K. P. Krishnan.
N. Sundaresha
Subramanian in the Business Standard about what the
independent directors of Ranbaxy were thinking and doing in
2004.
Regulation that is attacking something that is not a market
failure: Tarun
Shukla in Mint on forced hiring of domestic pilots.
Somasekhar
Sundaresan on what SEBI should do on its 25th birthday.
Patnaik on the messy issues of defining FDI, portfolio investment
and foreign control.
Ellen
Barry in the New York Times tells the story of the
flight of a key figure in Russian
economics: Sergei
Guriev. A country that cannot keep its intellectuals safe has
no
future. Also
see.
Hanif has a great piece in the Guardian looking back at the
elections in Pakistan.
economic empire by Heriberto Araujo and Juan Pablo Cardenal in
the New York Times.
A group of musicians in Lahore have an original take
on Everybody hurts by
R.E.M. Video.
A true war
story by Simone Gorrindo.
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