BY LINDSAY IRVINE History, though sometimes preserved in stones, is not static. History is a living organism that changes as we understand and incorporate traumatic events into our lives and our world. The human imagination has commemorated these events in numerous ways across countless generations, but most have been lost in the sands of time. [...]
BY BRIDGET BUTKEVICH A dangerous trend in economics is identifying homogenous ethnic groups with better outcomes.1 I do not use the word dangerous lightly, since outside of academia, violence is the most common expression of intolerance towards diversity. Marketplaces the world over are bastions of diversity that allow for individuals to utilize their comparative advantages. However, [...]
BY SALAH A. A. KHADR The importance of religion is by no means receding in the modern world. The salience of religious movements around the globe, and the substantial torrent of commentary by scholars and journalists that have accompanied them, attest to that fact. Whilst the “resurgence of religion” has been welcomed by many as [...]
BY RICHARD E. RUBENSTEIN There has been some debate, but not nearly as intense or as enlightening as one might have hoped, about the current U.S. administration’s declared policy to promote the spread of democracy around the world. Objections to the program of “exporting democracy” are generally of two sorts. One group—call it the “native [...]
BY TOJO THATCHENKERY AND ROGER STOUGH1 India has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. A report authored by Goldman Sachs in 2003 stated that by the year 2050 India will become the third largest economy in the world, behind China and the United States. The report predicts that India’s GDP [...]
BY BHAVANI ARABANDI India has gone through many transformations since its independence from British colonization in 1947. Significant among them has been a change in economic policies. Initially, India promoted a mixed economy: an uneasy combination of Soviet-styled socialism and Gandhi’s dream of self-sufficiency. Nascent industries were protected by the state, and foreign competition was [...]
BY REHANA GHADIALLY In this article, I share with you my personal impressions of India’s globalization and the challenges posed by it. I work at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mumbai. Both the institution and the city are at the forefront of what may follow in other parts of the country. Thirty years ago, [...]