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February 2013

February 04, 2013

Truth behind the Dubai Wonders: Built by Modern Day Slaves

The wonders of Dubai like the Burj Khalifa and other buildings and hotels are being...

February 03, 2013

“Rent a Womb”: India’s “Growing Industry”; Is it Biological Colonialism?

Many women from outside India - specially developed world - are "renting wombs" of Indian...

January 2013

January 22, 2013

Hunger is man-made in India: If India used Rice Growing techniques China and Indonesia use, it could feed 400 mn more!

China (197 million tonnes), India (131 Mt), and Indonesia (64 Mt) are the three largest...

December 2012

December 17, 2012

52 year old Professor in Mumbai begs on trains to create schools for underprivileged

Here is an incredible story of a Professor in Mumbai who begs on local trains...

October 2012

October 22, 2012

India's Looting Government Ministers and Officials: "Gangs of Hungerpur"

The World Bank knows. The Indian Supreme Court knows. Heck, even India's Planning Commission knows...

September 2012

September 29, 2012

India has more rich than UK and more poor than entire Sub Saharan Africa Combined!

India is situation is interesting and plight incomparable. Here are three stats that portray India's...

May 2012

May 01, 2012

From India Shinning to India Suffering

Amidst the cool confidence of the Indian professionals and businesses, India's economy and outlook seems...

March 2012

March 09, 2012

Where Mothers are forced to give Opium to their Infants

Yesterday, the world observed International Women's Day. Women are facing many issues over the world,...

February 2012

February 13, 2012

When two NRI young men lived on Rs 26 a day in India to experience the Poverty line

Two guys, Tushar Vashisht and Mathew Cherian - one an Investment Banker who studied at University...

December 2011

December 08, 2011

India is hurtling towards misery as its population rockets to 2 billion by end of century!

India is set to pass China's population by 2020 (India's population hurtling toward

March 2011

March 02, 2011

India Budget Special: Poverty Programs – the ideal tool of National Plunder!

In this year's Economic budget, the Indian Government has allocated Rs 40,100 crore for the...

December 2010

December 05, 2010

Rich loot in India while poor eat grass

Washington-based Global Financial Integrity (GFI) recently published a report titled 'The Drivers and Dynamics of...

April 2010

April 09, 2010

Be prepared to welcome 400 million refugees by 2015

Displacing farmers out of their farmland is the neo-liberal economic growth model - prescribed by...

April 01, 2010

When Poverty is better than Misery

Poverty is the worst state many imagine, but what can be worse than Poverty?

February 2009

February 28, 2009

Slumdog but not a Millionaire!

There has been a lot of hype around Slumdog Millionaire.. the Oscar, the poverty, the...

July 2008

July 03, 2008

Olympics, Mia Farrow and Darfur – what to do

PBS-TV recently carried two programs (can watch one online) reporting how the govt of Sudan...

September 2007

September 07, 2007

Officials sell food supplies while people die!

Kalahandi in Orissa is one of the poorest districts and where people regularly face starvation...

September 01, 2007

A Tragic Death at IIT Kanpur

I got this mail from a fellow-IRMAn. It again shows the extreme lack of humanity...

August 2007

August 26, 2007

How low can we Indians get??

What are people in India upto.. Biharis have mastered the art of being the evil-most...

August 14, 2007

Children Development Bank: Bank run by kids out of a Night Shelter!

Everyone has heard about the Grameen Bank - which is run through the poor Bangladeshi...

June 2007

June 23, 2007

"Farmers Do not commit suicide where they have cooperatives"

This is an interesting interview with Dr. Kurien sent by a friend from IRMA. Despite...

May 2007

May 23, 2007

Pakistani "Peacekeepers" were selling Arms for Gold in Congo!!

Two things: First, it is not just the Pakistani "peacekeepers" who got the Gold, even...

May 10, 2007

Waiting for him to die

See this. My sister, Anu, sent this to me. I think it really does shake...

March 2007

March 26, 2007

Did you know….

.. that India now has 36 billionaires.. the highest number of billionaires in Asia.. nudging...

March 23, 2007

India's Rural Schemes – do they work??

Are the rural programs for development useful? Do they work? Rajiv Gandhi said only 15%...

February 2007

February 23, 2007

Imagining Yourself Poor

Interesting study where people are imagining if they could be poor... and what they would...

February 12, 2007

IIT Graduate found begging in streets

Praful Madhav Chiplunkar is the grandson of Veer Savarkar (India's Freedom Fighter) and an IIT...

February 06, 2007

The Richest Beggar in Bombay!

I had a story on the rich beggars - well.. here is the richest of...

February 05, 2007

Beggary and the Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid!

This story is a case study for Prahlad's "Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid"...

February 02, 2007

India Grows; Its Farmers Die; While Politicians/officials Fight Semantics!

While India's businesses grow by leaps and bounds.. somewhere in India the progress is not...