Tag: governance
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Curious Bends – Hudhud, fewer cyclone deaths, population control and more
Curious Bends is a weekly newsletter science, tech. and data news from around South Asia. Akshat Rathi and I curate it. It costs nothing to sign up. If you’d like a sample, check out the one below. India went from 15,000 cyclone deaths in 1999 to just 38 last year “The difference in the number of…
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de Tocqueville & the news
That the switch from newspapers to digital handheld devices – for the purpose of sourcing all my news – is limited only by my comfort-level with technology is telling of some shortcoming of the print industry. The changing journalistic scene is a reflection of the way people engage publicly and of how public discourse has…
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A note on the Nobel Peace Prize, 2012
Across six decades, the European Union has stressed repeatedly on the importance of democracy and human rights. In the process, it set up a system that offered great humanitarian, and therefore popular, benefits to nations willing to join it. In return, it asked for the nations to stop warring, start talking, and get voting. Today,…