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One of the Indian habits that I admire and love is this—unlike in the west you can drop into a friend’s house in India without an appointment. I happened to do just that last week only to find myself in a strormy situation....
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I live in a small midwestern town of 60,000 people. As everyone knows the economy has been bad but to all appearances this town seems fine. However an incident or two...
made popular Sep 16 2010
The gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow in Chile, with the income of the poorest of households in the Latin American nation stagnating over the last...
made popular Jul 28 2010
Justice is like the beetle. It can be imprisoned. It can be nailed to the floor. It can be deprived of its wings. But it can never be crushed.
Since I learned that, I...
made popular Mar 18 2010
Yes. This is the information provided by the Government through its documentation.
Where is the implication? Is it inflation? Is it the divide between the riches...
made popular Jan 29 2010
Soheila, an Egyptian village housewife, traded her kidney for $2,185 to pay off debt — the best option the desperate mother of three could find to keep food on the...
made popular Dec 29 2009
Well, it’s official. The city of Rio de Janeiro will probably hire Rudy Giuliani to tell them how to clean up our town for the Olympics. Let me tell you why this...
made popular Dec 29 2009
Is ‘inflation’ the policy to solve the problem like population growth and poverty? You know why I am asking such a silly question; this is because of our...
made popular Dec 11 2009
The word ‘Development’ means the development of every citizens and their living standard, not the development of infrastructure like roads, bridges, flyovers,...
made popular Dec 7 2009
We claim to have defeated the darkness of slavery and boast of our development every now and then. The present Government’s claims of providing basic facilities and...
made popular Sep 15 2009
Nigeria and Angola are Africa’s top two oil producers, yet most of their people live in wretched poverty, often in shanties dwarfed by fire-belching...
made popular Aug 13 2009
Indian tennis star Sania Mirza lives below the poverty line, if government records in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh are to believed.
A special ration card for...
made popular Jun 25 2009
I have been a wanderer throughout since childhood. This is substantiated by the fact that I stayed in 18 houses in Delhi and around and 10 houses in abroad, in my fifty...
made popular May 11 2009
Many people think that the greatest divisions in life are about race, religion or country. Nothing can be further away from the truth.
Humanity is divided into two...
made popular Feb 28 2009
The world is at a crossroads in its existence as war and a new kind of freedom are escalating between competing views of globalization and human rights. At times both...
made popular Jan 29 2009
Ten million Kenyans are facing starvation but all our politicians can do is heighten their blame games as the situation deteriorates.
When the post election violence...
made popular Jan 16 2009
Well, um, I guess I must be. Or should I say I was. (Ok, I still am....)
I am writing this because I was prompted to do so by the above photo which I took a couple of...
made popular Dec 8 2008
NEW DELHI: India is home to roughly one-third of all poor people in the world. It also has a higher proportion of its population living on less than $2 per day than...
made popular Aug 27 2008
Poor sleep habits can do more than annoy parents and make teenagers drowsy in school — they can lead to high blood pressure, US researchers said.
made popular Aug 20 2008
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The Mexican flag not only symbolizes our country, but the history involved in becoming a country. The colors green, white and red represent Unity, Hope, and the blood...
made popular Aug 14 2008
A judge from Detroit was arrested while allegedly driving drunk in Mid-Michigan.
made popular Aug 7 2008
Somewhere in the world today, one man or woman (or both) are going to tuck into the finest linens that money can purchase after wining and dining in the finest of...
made popular Jul 24 2008
Cancer patients from low income groups receive less pro-active treatment and have a higher risk of dying within five years of diagnosis, according to a new US study....
made popular Jun 23 2008
The Indian government will launch a nationwide survey to study the life led by some 68 million people living in slums across the country. “The survey will bring forth...
made popular Jun 21 2008
Ensuring children Learn (ECL) is an approach projected with the firm belief that every child can learn. The approach is called Cooperative and reflective Learning...
made popular Jun 18 2008
It has now been a week since our last your view and because today we find out the results of the election of the Mayor of London, I thought we should have a political...
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World’s Most Expensive Cities to Live In and Visit
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Are we rich? or we are rich. A 30 lacs suitlength to be launched in India, a developing country where even one lac is a dream amount for many and in 30lacs one can...
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The largest and first ever study of global household assets and wealth distribution done by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations...
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