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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 […]
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Papua New Guinea: Move over corrupters, here comes the citizens!
Written by Morioka
In a country like Papua New Guinea (PNG), you don’t expect much from the government. If you do, you will be disappointed. You see, there is a problem when colonisation and Western democracy clash head on with the values and practices of a customary society. The by-product of this collision […]
