A. Rangarajan

Jan 13, 2012

Two roads to Koodankulam

The protests in Koodankulam have brought the entire debate over nuclear energy into sharp focus. The nuclear energy debate spans questions of safety, environment, ethics, energy-economics, development perspectives and undoubtedly it includes the question of social justice as well — after all the issue of who faces the risks and who benefits from the fruits becomes a contentious one in a country like ours.

A crisis of learning

Sometimes disconnected events highlight a certain intellectual continuum and help us see things that are otherwise clouded in rhetoric.

Food roulette

As the debate over the Food Security Bill sharpens the focus on securing essential food grains for India’s poor at affordable prices, it makes sense to look at what has been happening elsewhere in the

Lessons from relay of debacles

The financial crisis that erupted in 2008 in the wake of the infamous sub-prime mortgage lending in the United States dealt a severe blow to several economies in North America, Europe and even in the