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Schmoozer’s List

The directory of India’s most wanted phone numbers

Somalia’s Nowhere People

They have been let into the country but do not have permission to make a living here

The Samurai Spirit

A tragedy of gigantic proportions can also be an inflexion point for a country with an innate urge to bounce back. So it could be for Japan

The Right to Disagree

What hope does a free exchange of ideas have in a litfest whose organisers themselves won’t stomach dissent?

(Fading) Superpower Games

America has taken upon itself this last decade to reshape the world in its own disfigured image. Will it spend the next decade recoiling from the result?

The Death of Counterculture

Even ten years after 9/11, American popular culture continues to mimic the hollow piety of the political establishment. Granted the honourable exceptions

Anna’s Taandava

The wave of recent popular uprisings, including our very own, are reminiscent of an ancient cathartic tradition. Some will remember it as the Dancing Mania

No Scope for Reddy Redemption

Janardhan and Jagan have been partners in ways so clear and clever that they cannot but drag each other down

Debt in Disguise?

The RBI wants equity to be equity, with no guarantee of a payback. But foreign PE firms insist on fixed returns on investments

The Savings Shift

Strapped for money, most Indians have sought a risk-return midpoint. It’s quite a mindset shift from the pre-2008 days

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