Not good for the world! Not good for him either! Are we all living in a surveillance-ridden world? Inside India too, there are worrisome trends! That could trip India into unexpected territories! US President Barack Obama is now in the mid-term of his second term! Increasingly, he seems to be more silent that he used…
Month: August 2013
Our freedoms, our democratic rights!
Where are they? Not at the Moscow transit airport lounge nor at the London Heathrow! In the world we are living through! Nor at the ports, airports or airport lounges, as demonstrated by Edward Snowden and latest by the Brazilian journalist David Miranda! Why the world is so unconcerned? About our own freedoms or democracy?…
Tariq Ali, you know
The enfant terrible of the Sixties England A Romantic hero of the youth of that European period He continues to play that role, that of keeping up that radical, even a sort of anarchist role in our times. He was in India recently. He spoke on the contemporary world he knows best. Tariq Ali is…
The changing World
What will be Obama’s legacy? What will be the state of freedoms for the people? The changing meanings of freedom in today’s world! A new ode to freedom likely to be sung for our time? In the year 1935, I remember and recall Prof.Harold Laski, the famous British political scientist, in those heady days of…