In the 1990s, when Richard Franke and Barbara Chasin talked about ‘development without growth’ while describing the Kerala model of development1 , many would have considered it as yet another left-oriented welfare…
It is not often that the typical hard-nosed bureaucrat gets to respond at a deeper level to the citizens of the district she or he is called to head. What with recurring…
Global Forum Thematic Webinar VI March 16, 2022 REPORT In the framework of the upcoming Global Forum 2021, that will take place on 17 & 18 October 2022, at Muscat, Oman, four…
This is a curtain-raiser video compilation of thirty of my most recent unpublished watercolor paintings. (Note: The views expressed in the video are those of its makers and do not reflect the…
To millions of Indians, Lata Mangeshkar is the incarnation of the goddess of Music. Beginning her career in the 1940s as a child artist in Indian films, she went on to become…
Global Forum Thematic Webinar V December 8th, 2021 TOPIC 2 REPORT In the framework of the upcoming Global Forum 2021, that will take place on 17th and 18th October 2022, at Muscat,…
Global Forum Thematic Webinar V December 8th, 2021 TOPIC 1 REPORT In the framework of the upcoming Global Forum 2021, that will take place on 17th and 18th October 2022, at Muscat,…
Global Forum Thematic Webinar IV September 22, 2021 TOPIC 2 REPORT In the framework of the upcoming Global Forum 2021, that will take place on 7th and 8th March 2022, at Muscat,…
Are we being lulled into the ‘and-they-lived-happily-ever-after’ fairy tale sleep inducer mode with all those mesmerizing digital inputs we consume from the social media, on an hourly basis? Stooped as we sit…