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The Jan Lokpal Anti-Corruption Bill – the State Vs. the People of India!
Written by Parthajit Dasgupta
69 years since independence and India is still battling against a parasite called corruption. When the people of India voted for democracy, little did they know that six decades later, they will be wrapped in a emotional tug of war with the state and the governance.
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Preventing the rollback of democracy in Pakistan
Written by M. Farhan Janjua
A couple of days ago, the country faced a nationwide electricity blackout for several hours when the main national grid station tripped and backups crashed. When we heard the news, the first thought that ran through the minds of many people, myself included, was that perhaps the army had overthrown […]
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Eastern Europe: What’s a Normal Relationship with our Governments?
Written by Corina Murafa
The Future Challenges question of the month asks what citizens can expect from their governments in the future. In all honesty, I think they can only expect as much as they demand. My proposition, and a lesson I’ve learnt from living in Eastern Europe, Western Europe and the United States, […]
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The Shy and Gradual Revolution
Written by Paula Fortes
The time for big revolutions is gone. This doesn’t mean we do not change — on the contrary, we’re changing now more than ever. But change is already a conservative aspect of our society. One of the few certainties we have is that we are going to think and live differently […]
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Mutual Benefits: The Path to Sustainable Governance
Written by Kapell
“There are men who fight one day and they are good, men who fight one year and they are better, men who fight many years and they are really great, but there are men that fight their entire lives, those are the essentials.” – Bertolt Brecht, German Poet The days […]
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Returning Indians in Search of the Indian Dream
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
At a recent dinner I bumped into two second generation Indians who had, a while ago moved to India from Britain and the US. Ravi had managed to jump the hurdles and settle down and was quite happy, but Neeraj’s story was different. Neeraj is a software engineer who returned […]
