M J Akbar 
A Latin Response to Latin America(0)
Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina has not become the first non-European Pope in 12 centuries through accident; or indeed because his genetic origins are Italian. Karol Jozef Wojtyla, the fi rst non-Italian Pope in more than four centuries, did not get elected to the throne in 1978 merely through a throw of electoral dice. The [...]
MEN ARE THE WEAKER SEX
Women’s cricket now represents the third great revolution in a sport that has long
been a mirror of social mores.
The one certain fact about this uncertain business called advertising is that you can’t do without it. Such compulsion does not mean this hit-and-run affair necessarily works. It is difficult to predict when a campaign will be [...]
SWIVEL MOMENT IN INDIA’S HISTORY
The rape was a scream of anguish against widespread, inhuman and unchecked corruption that has turned the citizen into a hapless victim of kleptocracy.
Shock dissipates; pain lingers; and rage will extract its due sometime. On a recent Saturday morning, the 23-year-old girl who had been raped by a criminal gang festering with demons on the [...]
Some Facts of Life
Spin-doctors are hired to bowl googlies in a crisis. So far, those who have stepped out to defend Vadra have chose bluster for the media and threats against whistle-blowers.
Which of these stories will determine the fate of Washington this November? On 3rd October I read a Bloomberg story, based on data just released by the American government, that the top 1 per [...]