Noble Peace/Economics Nobels or Not?

Noble Nobels, or not , that is the question?
It sounds a little wonky, but I think this is really the question that a lot of people around the world have raised after the Nobel Prizes for this year were announced a few days back.
The Peace Prize has gone to US President Barack [...]

Why has Amartya Sen stopped learning?

Its been a long sabbatical and I am back to irritate you dear readers by asking unpleasant questions and making”snide” remarks. But here goes:
In a recent two-part article in The Telegraph, Kolkata published on December 29, 2008 and December 30, 2008, Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen has argued, in my view rather weakly when [...]

Rizwanur Murder: Operation Cover-up Proceeding As Predicted

Operation cover-up in the Rizwanur murder case is proceeding as predicted. One will have to wait till December 16 to get the final verdict from the CBI: Rizwanur committed suicide because his own brother and Pappu betrayed him. An absolutely open and shut case. The victim killed himself because of his own family members.
Who says [...]

Marxism/Leftism sans any clue of structural change is as reactionary as Rightist parties

My good friend Life’s Elsewhere has been doing a brilliant job (and I suspect wittingly and consciously rather than unwittingly) in bringing to the fore the major issues of the day in the sharpest possible manner and thereby helping me to hit at the nub of the problem rather than beat about the [...]