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Technology and Hope

There are many reasons why we should give up hope. Newspapers, TV, Facebook and Twitter…

Mumbai Says Goodbye To Its Traditional Taxis, Ever-Present Symbols Of Post-Colonial India

It’s the end of the line for the Padmini, the traditional Indian taxi based on the Fiat 1100D. Long…

The Soviet-ization Of The Chinese Economy – Part 1 of 5

The China that beat the Japanese and the nationalists is unable to adopt a development model of its own….

Savage Urbanisation: the New Cultural Revolution

Very rarely do we understand the magnitude of specific events as they happen; more often than not, we look…