India
Financial Globalization: Should China move in?
By Samir Amin
May 2018
The financial facets of globalization
Globalization has three facets which consist of : (i) free global trade, (ii) free international capital...
Beijing cancels trade talks with Washington after US sanctions China for...
By Nick Beams
22 September 2018
In a significant escalation of global tensions, the US has imposed sanctions on a Chinese military unit and its...
Sri Lanka in the cross-currents of shifting power alignments in the...
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The Indian Ocean has been the focus of frequent and intense diplomatic activity in the past few years. These interactions have had...
Managing Pakistan’s Bomb: Learning on the job
By Pervez Hoodbhoy, Zia Mian
August 17, 2018
On Saturday, Imran Khan will be sworn in as the next prime minister of Pakistan. His has been...
Unprecedented monsoonal floods kill over 370 in southwest India
By Sathish Simon
20 August 2018
More than 370 people have been killed and some two million displaced by flash flooding and landslides caused by...
Amidst Turkish crisis Indian rupee falls to all-time low
By Deepal Jayasekera
18 August 2018
With the ongoing crisis involving Turkish lira, the Indian rupee fell to an all-time low on Tuesday. The Indian...
Rob Nixon: Gov’t Inaction on Climate Change Is “Slow Violence” That...
August 02, 2018
With unprecedented fires, floods and heat waves sweeping the globe, 2018 is on track to be the fourth-hottest year on record. The...
A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi
June 27, 2018
India’s agrarian crisis has gone beyond the agrarian.
It’s a crisis of society. Maybe even a civilizational crisis, with perhaps the largest body...
US quits Human Rights Council wearing the emperor’s new clothes
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The US quit the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (19th June) with rhetoric intended to assert the moral high-ground, slamming the...
Traditional medicine: 50% rise in patients seeking homeopathic treatment
Homeopathy is being promoted as it is not only safe and effective but also due to its high acceptance through high quality surveys of...