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THE MIDDLE CLASS HAS FAILED BUT THE MIDDLE CLASS MUST SUCCEED
Any article that I write that even gently points out lacunae in the middle class
attitudes invites a...
made popular Apr 11 2011
Poverty in New Zealand is very hidden, Most of us look OK. We haven’t got the distended stomach and the hollow eyes of the malnourished, but it’s still very...
made popular Feb 21 2011
Sometimes a story appears that might be funny if only it were satire, welfare minister Paula Bennett’s intention to “eat so much crayfish that I’m sick of...
made popular Dec 24 2010
Just walk 10-15 kms away from any city boundary and you can see life as it was several years back. Some households may have a TV set, mobile phone but nothing much has...
made popular Dec 24 2010
Is it wrong to send your parents to old age homes? Is it ethically, morally and emotionally right? Is the western culture warping our values? These are the few...
made popular Nov 30 2010
Mexico’s government must create jobs and improve education to help fight drug trafficking, the country’s senate president said in an interview with CNN en...
made popular Nov 30 2010
Since India’s Independence in 1947, country has faced several social and economic issues:
1 Violence
1.1 Religious violence
1.2 Terrorism
1.3 Naxalism
1.4 Caste...
made popular Nov 16 2010
(A report about beggars including child beggars that I got published in Hindustan Times on Nov.16,2000.In these past ten years since the publication of this report ...
made popular Nov 15 2010
India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru was an ardent supporter of the co-operative movement. His views on the subject are well known. No individual has, of...
made popular Oct 4 2010
President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for new ways to tackle global poverty and said his administration would focus its help to the poor on promoting economic...
made popular Sep 23 2010
One of my best friends who has parted ways with me posted an interesting video on Orkut’s video section.The video inspires one have elevated sense of...
made popular Sep 21 2010
The other day, while watching yet another movie on POVERTY, the one thing we don’t want to see, yet cannot ignore, an image came across my mind. The image is of a...
made popular Sep 7 2010
Mozambique’s Food Riots: The True Face Of Global Warming
By Raj Patel
The violence in Maputo is just the latest manifestation of the crippling shortcomings of...
made popular Sep 7 2010
When Mugabe, in a fit of pique in early 2000, ordered that the war veterans and the youth militia to begin the destructive and violent land grab in Zimbabwe, he sold...
made popular Sep 6 2010
Standing in the narrow streets of Shatila refugee camp, south Beirut, as battered mopeds speed past and electrical wires dangle messily overhead, seven-year-old Hasan...
made popular Aug 26 2010
Poverty: Above the line
The new fact about the poverty in India is shocking. A combined research survey Oxford University and United Nations revels that at least 8...
made popular Aug 19 2010
There would appear to be divided views on the land grab in Zimbabwe. Whilst many people, including myself, feel that land should be returned to the people of Zimbabwe,...
made popular Jul 28 2010
A desperate picture of the health of North Korea’s population is painted by a report describing a country of stunted children, where the hungry eat poisonous...
made popular Jul 15 2010
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In mid-May, 2010, European leaders met with International Monetary Fund (IMF) leaders and finally reached an agreement comprising a £750 billion...
made popular Jun 5 2010
A severe drought is causing increasing hunger across the Eastern Sahel in west Africa, affecting 10 million people in four countries, aid agencies warned today. In...
made popular Jun 4 2010
Cairo, Nile View from Zamalek roof top
It might be the overwhelming crowdedness, traffic and congestion. The low pay and the high prices..the provocative PSA’s...
made popular May 31 2010
Extreme poverty in China is driving some parents to do desperate things, which is sad and ironic, at the same time, considering one would think the communist system...
made popular May 27 2010
Five years ago this week, during the winter months in Zimbabwe, Operation Murambatsvina was launched. The official line was that illegal dwellings in the country needed...
made popular May 19 2010
She has been raped so many times that her mother has lost count. Her tribulations have literary stalled her family of five members. Her mother is already medically...
made popular May 19 2010
I would like to quote a story and two events. A King had all the luxuries a man could ask for; he died due to depression. His depression was because he could not do...
made popular May 17 2010
Mazari Maher and Sardar Khatoon, a poor couple from district Shikarpur sold their four-year-old daughter, Haseena, to their neighbours in their native village Laki for...
made popular May 17 2010
Amnesty International is calling for greater sensitivity to Europe’s Roma population. They say that ten million Roma live across the continent, and by in large...
made popular May 12 2010
Last week I was lucky enough to watch, for the umpteenth time, Richard Attenborough’s 1982 Oscar winning film “Gandhi”. The movie may be over 3 hours...
made popular May 12 2010
As I`m trying to compose this piece of writing, the host of the radio show is talking about breast cancer and preventive methods requesting her audience to follow her...
made popular Mar 31 2010
A woman in Peru’s Puno region allegedly sold her four-month-old son for 2,000 soles ($700), a media report said.
The mother, 40-year-old Agripina M., confessed...
made popular Mar 26 2010
PHIR SUBAH HOGI
DEATH BE NOT PROUD –A CONTRARIAN VIEW
I am never taken aback at how there can be totally different perceptions about anything at...
made popular Mar 18 2010
To earn 100 sols ($35) a month, Peru’s poorest women make their kids go to school and get their medical check-ups, and do not hesitate to trudge four hours to collect...
made popular Mar 17 2010
For us it is a saddening sight - a magnificent bull elephant struck down in his old age.
But for the starving of Zimbabwe, it was little short of a miracle.
The...
made popular Mar 12 2010
A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of...
made popular Mar 10 2010
Yesterday afternoon I watched the documentary “Zimbabwe’s Forgotten Children” of the BBC iPlayer. And I was struck by the degradation of life in...
made popular Mar 4 2010
I had a flashback the other day when I was looking at photographs from Haiti of 15-year-old Fabianne Geismar, shot dead in the head after stealing wall hangings from a...
made popular Feb 24 2010
End of 20th and start of 21st centuries brought rapid changes in the world politics and economy. Apart from positive development for mankind, the violence, conflicts,...
made popular Feb 20 2010
According to Elías Eljuri, President of Venezuela’s National Institute of Statistics, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is the country with least social...
made popular Feb 19 2010
Recently there has been news about dogs I mean canines, there was one fellow from Jalandhar, Subhash who apparently rebuked two youths, Rinku and Mintu, after they...
made popular Feb 17 2010
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