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Sympathy going out of fashion in India?

By Surya ⋅ May 3, 2005 ⋅ 8 comments

Bloomberg reports on how sympathy is going out of style in India. A rather harsh statement, but given the context, one might agree that this is a move in the right direction.
India has had a legal system that was ‘kind’ to employees often at the expense of fairness. How else would one explain a decision [...]

Microfinance - the next big thing?

By Surya ⋅ April 5, 2005 ⋅ 5 comments

Helping people help themselves - is it the solution to our world’s problems?
2005 is the International year of Microcredit and rightly so. The importance of microfinance for the underdeveloped or developing world is not often understood well enough. There is an old adage that says give a man a fish and he eats for one [...]

A ray of hope

By Surya ⋅ March 10, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Lets do our best, be it big or smallLet there be no poor, once and for all.
My German teacher is back from his holiday in Peru. Eager to show off what I had learned in his absence, I excitedly quipped: “Wie war Ihre Urlaub?”. The man was obviously shaken by his trip, because what I [...]

Censorship: To be or not to be

By Surya ⋅ January 18, 2005 ⋅ One comment

There are very few things in life that I am not confused about. For most of the issues in the world, I can argue both sides of the issue equally convincingly and more often than not, I donâ€™t bother to choose a side. One of the few exceptions to this rule used to be on [...]

Think out of the box, Singapore!

By Surya ⋅ August 27, 2004 ⋅ 2 comments

I happened to catch the Singapore’s new PM’s maiden speech as PM ( How could I not - the national TV had retelecast it so many times, not to mention the mobile TV in the bus on my way back home). While I havenâ€™t heard the whole speech, I happened to catch bits and pieces. [...]