Subhanil advocates a return to Keynesian spending by the government to stimulate demand:
The question that naturally arises is how to overcome the problem of slow down in the Indian economy. It has been already seen that both the debt financed consumption as well as the external sector currently is not being able to boost the [...]
Archive for November 12th, 2008
Technology doesn’t breed stupidity, it makes you lazy, according to Kiran:
Sometime last year, I had been to a mall in Kuala Lumpur and enquired about the price of an iPod. The lady told me its 740 Malaysian Ringgit (RM). Now, obviously, I had to convert that to Indian Rupees, and 1 RM equals Rs. 12 [...]
‘Terrorism is un-Islamic’
Published by November 12th, 2008 in Human Rights, Religion and Secularism. 0 CommentsThey planned, spent their own money and organised the mega conference. Called spiritual leaders of other communities from Sri Sri Ravi Shankar to Swami Agnivesh, and spoke in one clear voice. And said it loudly, ‘Terrorism is un-Islamic’ and cleared the myths about Jehad. Still, this is not the last such event.
Such strong voice of [...]
Eve-teasing is a social evil: this we all agree upon. Be it your friend, girlfriend, cousin or your sister, if you hear that someone decided to wolf-whistle when they went to a bus-stop or if someone sang songs and followed them from their college to someplace else, you want to go and smack them — [...]
Less Trees for Bangalore
Published by November 12th, 2008 in Activism, Development and India. 0 CommentsGloi takes a part in a protest march against cutting trees in Bangalore for widening the roads and for the Metro. He agrees there are no easy trade offs but trees are worth saving.
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