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Thwarting Failure in South Asia

Six South Asian countries are among the 25 states likeliest to fail on the “Failed States Index”, co-created by Foreign Policy magazine and The Fund for Peace. The same six countries – Afghanistan, Pakistan, Burma, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka – (in the same order) were also featured amongst the top 25

Interview: Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa is the author of Cracking India and The Crow Eaters. She currently lives in Houston, Texas. What does your name Bapsi mean? Who gave you the name? My grandmother doted on the British. She gave me what she thought was an English name. Ironically, an English woman asked

Qualitative Vs. Quantitative Methods

Epistemology of Causality How do we know that something is the ’cause’ of something and how do we impute ‘causality’ through data? To impute causality in quantitative models, we rely on the argument that it is unlikely that the change in Y could be explained by anything else other than

Corporate Beneficence

Apple “Apple has agreed to host music for an organization that uses African music to help people caught in the escalating ethnic violence in Darfur, Sudan.” MacWorld McDonald’s The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities is to “provide a “home away from home” for families of seriously ill children

Democratic Pandering

Mr. Bush said Putin's recent harsh comments toward the West suggest he may be trying to build support for his party in advance of next year's elections, and the president saw that as positive. He said, "When public opinion influences leadership, it is an indication

Articles of Interest

I have too much to do… “American workers, on average, spend 45 hours a week at work, but describe 16 of those hours as â€œunproductive,â€ according to a study by Microsoft. America Online and Salary.com, in turn, determined that workers actually work a total of three days

Waxing poetic

“India has a growing middle class estimated at 300 million people.” Emily Wax 300 million is an astounding figure and just a shade below the US population. If indeed India has a “growing” middle class that is 300 million strong, then the US and the rest of the world better

Sidhwa's Lahore, A Lovingly Embroidered Family Heirloom

Every great city deserves a worthy admirer. Lahore has just found one. Bapsi Sidhwa’s edited volume is a tribute to the city, a celebration of its landmarks, its cuisine, its gourmets, its brutalizing summers, its people, and its stories. The book strikes an immediate rapport. It is akin to

Movie Review: The Namesake

The Film The Namesake is a mediocre film based on an equally middling eponymous novel by Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning London born author of Indian descent. It is a coming of age story of an ABCD by “another badly confused Deshi” (ABCD – Lahiri) [Washington Post] The novel traces the

Interpretive Approaches in Art History

If social sciences have been sprinting breathlessly towards positivism, art history has been running, equally fast, away from it. Art history’s subjectivist turn can be traced back to postmodernism, and particularly hermeneutics and phenomenology, which pretty much gave immunity to virtually all kinds of interpretations–as long as they