‘”Bury this terrorist on U.S. soil and we will unbury him.” So ran the bitter slogan…A legal no-man’s land, perhaps, but familiar territory to anyone even casually acquainted with the Greek classics.’
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‘This is an Administration that is uncommonly touchy about government officials who leak to the press, even as, like all governments, it engages in strategic or self-aggrandizing leaks on a regular basis.’ http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/05/how-obama-harms-the-press.html ‘The recent elections in Pakistan show that the country is finally on the right track notwithstanding the rigging, the violence and the brutal prevention of women from voting in some areas by representatives of all the political parties. The huge turnout of women and first-time young voters risking their lives to exercise their right to choose is something to celebrate and strengthen…’ http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/pakistan-elections-democracy-dichotomies-and-shades-grey.html ‘For those who believe that a robust public-affairs journalism is essential for a society striving to be democratic, the 21st century has been characterized by bad news that keeps getting worse.’ ‘While Gupta departed McKinsey with a fortune, he was now mingling with a crowd that included Bill Gates, Henry Kravis and Henry M. Paulson Jr…he had to be a billionaire…Whether Gupta’s charge is overturned or not, he will still be remembered as the dignified McKinsey managing director who fell down the money trap and under the spell of a boorish hedge-fund trader, a reality which, in his world, is almost as damaging as the crime he stands accused of committing.’ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/magazine/rajat-guptas-lust-for-zeros.html?hp&_r=1&pagewanted=all& http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2013/06/steve-cohen-insider-trading-case ‘It’s been a rough couple of weeks for the media, social and mainstream. The Boston Marathon bombing brought out the best in some newspapers…but the story also highlighted the worst tendencies of media new and old.’ ‘Abstract: The Indus script possessed a set of signs referring to crop and share of the agricultural produce (Chart I). Five hierarchical levels of levies on the produce have been identified, namely, those due to god, state, city, land owner, and the tenant-farmer. Survivals of the agricultural signs in the Indus script as pottery graffiti in later periods are illustrated in Chart II. A list of signs of the Indus script depicting agricultural implements is also included (Chart III).’ http://www.ras.org.in/agricultural_signs_in_the_indus_script ‘The Review of Agrarian Studies is happy to present, for the first time, a multimedia feature. This is a field report of a different kind: the farm and other rural songs featured here are from a project to archive the songs of the Adivasi people of Odisha.’ ‘Here’s a fact that may not surprise you: the children of the rich perform better in school, on average, than children from middle-class or poor families…It is true in most societies and it has been true in the United States for at least as long as we have thought to ask the question and had sufficient data to verify the answer…this is hardly news…What is news is that in the United States over the last few decades these differences in educational success between high- and lower-income students have grown substantially.’ Do we ask this key question in India and have sufficient data to verify the answers? http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/no-rich-child-left-behind/?hp ‘For billionaires who cannot buy good press, there is the option of buying the press.’ The Editor of a western newspaper recently remarked that Australia’s far-Right billionaire, Gina Rinehart, makes Rupert Murdoch seem ‘left-wing’. Read on: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/03/25/130325fa_fact_finnegan?currentPage=all ‘Whatever the truth, [Pope] Francis the Humble, it would seem, has much to clear up about what he thought, how he behaved, and what he did during his country’s Dirty War’, the anti-Communist reign of terror by the military junta (1976-1983). ‘New Pope’s role during Argentina’s military era disputed’, Jonathan Watts and Uki Goni, Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/15/pope-francis-argentina-military-era ‘There have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal’ — Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Britain’s senior-most Catholic cleric http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/03/cardinal-keith-obrien-admits-sexual-misconduct http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/04/scottish-catholic-obrien-scandal-authority http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_O’Brien Statement: http://www.scmo.org/articles/statement-from-cardinal-obrien.html ‘Cardinal Keith O’Brien: how Britain’s Catholic leader fell from grace’, Catherine Deveney, The Observer: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/02/cardinal-keith-obrien-sex-scandal-priests ‘O’Brien priest worries that church wants to ”crush” him’, Catherine Deveney, The Observer: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/02/obrien-priest-catholic-church ‘Unfit for purpose and in denial: a church that has lost all authority’, Kevin McKenna, The Observer: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/mar/02/ordinary-catholics-deserve-an-answer What makes real estate prices ‘in the heart of New Delhi…among the highest in the world’? Some insights into the conundrum: What lies ahead for a deeply troubled, scandal-ridden Catholic Church with a worldwide following of 1.17 billion people — after a reactionary Pope stepped down, acting ‘like the CEO of a company’? ‘The Catholic Church Shifted Southward Over the Past Century’, NYT graphic: ‘Grillo is like a character in one of my plays…He is from that school of medieval minstrels who played with paradox and the absurd’ — Nobel Prize-winning playwright Dario Fo on ‘what makes Beppe Grillo tick…after a quarter of Italians voted for his brand of populist insurgency in last week’s general election’: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/02/beppe-grillo-dario-fo-italy |
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