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The concept of free lunch is being used and promoted by Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze who have worked for years in improving access to education among the rural poor. Btw, Jean Dreze who has taken up Indian citizenship and given up his Belgian citizenship is a real grassroots worker-intellectual...

A pioneering step! Dear Rajendra Ji, Congratulations and best wishes for embarking on this much-needed and ambitious endeavor. As you pointed out, this project can be a model for cost-effective, community-based medicine, which is what we need in the Indian context if we are to make health care...

Let me give you some perspective! Dear Amit: An incident of similar highhandedness, even worse, comes to mind. Why did not the US extradite Warren Anderson the CEO of Union Carbide (or whatever its mother company was) to be tried in India for the deaths of thousands of people in Bhopal? I...

People like Modi should be international pariahs--their nationality shouldn't matter Diplomatic faux pas? who committed the faux pas? Not the US, certainly. It was Modi who misunderstood the nature of US diplomacy, so the faux pas is entirely his. Also, there are no absolute principles in...

Please re-examine your statements! i m sorry to say u are either not indian or not believe in indian law only believes in american decision, which is completely bios by the pakistani bureaucrat who want to defame india first as a humanrights violater in front of world and than justify collision...

I don't know where to begin on this! Okay. Let me break it down: 1. US was highhanded in its refusal of visa to Modi. Agreed. But that is consistent with US pursuing its policy objectives. Is this something that has only come to light with the refusal of visa to Modi? India could disagree...

Hypocrisy is also an issue! When India asks for the US to intervene on its behalf in Pak-India issues, it is somewhow fine, but for the US to use its power the way it sees fit, that makes it international thanedar! Of course US unilateralism is bad in this case, but it also bad in all other...

Pressler and his ilk are in minority That's a good article that you posted, Mukesh. It shows the heterogeneity of views within the US on the issue of Indo-US relations. The fact however is that Pressler is not part of the establishment. In fact Pressler was rendered ineffective long ago when...

After shave and tootpaste from gau-mutra and gobar! I am all for the use of cow dung as fertilizer, but this is really stretching the limit, that is, to put it mildly. I wonder how many BJP leaders use cow's urine (sorry! gaumutra) and gobar-based toothpaste and health products. Judging from...

About the nature of politics [in India] The point I was trying to make is very simple: at any given point in time there exist interests--at individual and group level which are diverse and often contradictory (even individuals harbor internal contradictions). Ideologies serve the purpose of...

Hi, Shailendra: This is really an interesting topic that you have broached. Modi won the elections because he was able to polarize the electorate along religious lines--Hindu vs Muslim. If you look at the whole ideology of Hindutva, it is predicated on the attempt to subsume the differences of...

Bhagat Singh went to DAV, Lahore Hi, Raj: I think he was at DAV, Lahore, pursuing a BA, but dropped out before finishing it. I knew someone whose father was a classmate of Bhagat Singh's, who used to recall how even during his brief college stint, his brilliance was noticed by everyone. In...

Rememeber Bhagat Singh and What he Stood For Thanks Jagmohan Ji for reminding us of this important anniversary. Bhagat Singh was truly a remarkable individual: fiercely independent, supremely courageous, and highly thoughtful--a combination quite unusual in men. Let us remember for a moment...

Good suggestion! He should file a case in the consumer court against US Embassy and claim refund and compenstation for the poor customer services... That will be a real historic court case. Since USA charged him money for 10 years VISA, Modi has a strong case....who knows he might...

Difference between Rath Yatra and reenacted Dandi March The reenactment of Dandi March may be silly- which it most certainly is--but has not resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people, as the Rath Yatra did. There is a big difference between events that are calculated to incite hatred and...

Looks like Modi losing it! All this stress, it seems is causing Modi to display very strange symptoms, and utter absolute inanities. What the hell is he babbling about, below: Comparing himself to Gandhi and that US is feeling threatened by the rising power of Gujarat! Modi invokes Mahatma...

Congratulations and Best Wishes for the Future This is a great achievement. May Amardeep scale ever-increasing heights of success in his future endeavors!

Empty symbolism--our lives are saturated with it! This Dandi march thing is yet another instance of empty symbolism which completely dominates our public lives, especially in political and religious matters. Whether it is annual Oct 2 homage at Rajghat, annual pilgrimage to Sabarimala shrine...

Gujarati Community in the US speaks out.... against....Modi!!! Now we know why Gujjus make such successful traders. Gujju motel owners are concerned and want their plight to be understood--forget about Modi (waiting for visas, afterall). But, no, this is too cynical. Maybe, by expressing...

http://www.flonnet.com/fl2206/stories/20050325000705200.htm This is a good example, a pioneering intervention study, of how community medicine can significantly improve the quality of life of people with little or no access to healthcare, at minimal costs. End stage renal failure is a severe...