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East India Company: Mother of the modern-day corporation The East India Company outstripped Wal-Mart in market power, Enron in corruption, and Union Carbide in human devastation. The success of two Armenian merchants in bringing the Company to book in 1769 for corporate malpractice should inspire us to hold corporations to account More... The limits of judicial activismToday, everything from river pollution to the selection of the cricket team has become the purview of judicial activism. Is it time to put the genie back in the bottle and confine the courts' public interest jurisdiction to its original purpose of ensuring justice to the poor and exploited? More... Are GMOs spiralling out of control?To argue that genetically-modified crops will solve the problem of hunger thanks to their higher productivity, is like saying that Bill Gates developed Microsoft software to solve the world's illiteracy problem. And what if the technology runs amuck? More... Recipes for making India 'hunger-free'A roadmap prepared by the National Commission on Farmers, chaired by M S Swaminathan, insists that only a Rs 39,500-crore subsidy for a universal public distribution system can solve the food security problem. Is this practicable? More... India's new maharajasSEZs, with their special status and privileges, will operate much like the princely states of yore More... Why a groundwater cess won't workThe proposed cess on groundwater extraction will only give big players such as the bottled water industry carte blanche to extract as much as they need. A water cess in the absence of blanket checks on over-extraction is not a good idea More... Northeast of EdenIndia chooses to showcase the northeast as an exotic tourist destination of great natural beauty. Several documentaries at a recent environmental film festival in Guwahati showed it as a neglected corner of the country, with gaunt tribals and civil and political unrest More... The ugly truth about the HIV pandemicThe impact of HIV and AIDS on children exposes the ugly truth that children are at the bottom of the ladder of social and economic priorities More... Copyright: Keeping a balance between public and private interestThe copyright system is meant to promote access to knowledge in the public domain, not to restrict it. The proposed amendments to the Indian Copyright Act 1957, however, may land us with an ever-growing list of restrictions More... Reconsidering the pirate nation: Notes from South Africa and IndiaTrade losses to software manufacturers due to piracy are as high as $125 billion. We need to interrogate why piracy of software, books, music etc exists as a market phenomenon. Could it be an organic market reaction to the exclusion of consumers by copyright industries? More... Measuring global poverty: India on 20 cents a dayGlobal poverty estimates report the number of people living on less than $1 or $2 a day. But purchasing power (dis)parities suggest that it could be more accurate to say that the poor in countries like India are living on less than $0.20 or $0.40 a day, says Aseem Shrivastava More... Model lawLaws drafted in dusty government offices are often vague and full of loopholes. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005 is a clear and concise piece of legislation that demonstrates the value of involving stakeholders in the drafting of a law More... Absence of sanitation points to massive deprivationSanitation remains one of the most neglected issues both in the national policies of many countries and by the global community. Failure to increase the number of people with access to clean water and basic sanitation endangers progress towards other important development targets More... |
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