| Barun Roy: For Tagore's sake | 19-NOV-09 |
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| I don’t wish to get into the question of who’s right and who’s wrong, but the recent turmoil at Visva-Bharati, in Santiniketan, West Bengal, is highly disturbing and it diminishes its sanctity as an institution founded by Rabindranath Tagore. The simmering problems that have plagued Visva-Bharati for long and culminated in an ugly showdown between its vice-chancellor and its faculty and employees call for an urgent and convincing intervention by the highest authorities in New Delhi. |
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| Barun Roy: Asia's coming of age | 05-NOV-09 |
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| There was a time, in the ’60s and ’70s, when, for countless newspaper readers across Asia from Seoul to Singapore, Sunday wasn’t complete without their favourite weekend read, The Asia Magazine. All major Asian newspapers used to carry it as their regular Sunday supplement, produced from a small editorial office in Hong Kong. |
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| Barun Roy: What are we, really? | 08-OCT-09 |
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| What’s wrong with us? Are we turning into a land of hypocrites and intolerant, narrow-minded nationalists? We can’t take criticism, we can’t tolerate differences of opinion, we can’t take a joke, we can’t laugh at ourselves, and we can’t stand being laughed at. |
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| Barun Roy: Beyond Borlaug | 24-SEP-09 |
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| What’s more important to a hungry child? Food now, or future environmental worries? I know I’m on sticky ground here, but it would be hypocritical not to ask the question when the world is mourning the death of one person who, literally, helped save millions in the developing world — in our part of it, especially — from hunger. |
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| Barun Roy: A Dubai in the steppes? | 10-SEP-09 |
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| Among the steppes and ranges of Mongolia, a new wind of hope is blowing. This Alaska-sized, landlocked country wedged between Russia and China where horses, camels, sheep, and goats roam and over 30 per cent of the 3 million population are still nomads and half the people are among the world’s poorest could become a Dubai in the next ten years or so. |
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| Barun Roy: The Cory legacy | 13-AUG-09 |
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| Almost a quarter century ago, Corazon (Cory) Aquino had come to power in the Philippines blazing a glorious trail of People Power that toppled one of the nastiest dictatorships in history. People sang and danced in the streets and went mad with joy as Ferdinand Marcos and his equally hated wife, Imelda, were driven out of Manila’s Malacanang Palace into exile in the US in a peaceful revolution that had few parallels in history. |
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| Barun Roy: Let the games begin | 30-JUL-09 |
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| China's efforts for the 2010 World Expo make it a clear winner compared to India’s for the Commonwealth Games. |
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| Barun Roy: Misguided protest | 18-JUN-09 |
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| There is racial abuse in every country, including in India. Blaming all Australians only makes things worse. |
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| Barun Roy: A different harm | 21-MAY-09 |
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| Up on the mountains of Lunaobao, in Zhangbei County of North China’s Hebei Province, abutting the Inner Mongolian plateau, wind turbines are raising their heads for a new power project to produce 100.5 Mw of electricity by next year. |
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| Barun Roy: Fuelling change | 23-APR-09 |
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| After a successful pilot, Indonesia plans to give a free LPG stove and a cylinder to wean users off subsidised kerosene. |
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