Neha Viswanathan · May, 2008

Latest posts by Neha Viswanathan from May, 2008

India: Food Prices and Bush

  15 May 2008

Rethinking Developmental Economics on the food price crisis around the world, George Bush's remarks and the factors that are pushing the cost of food up.

Sri Lanka: Cricket purists

  15 May 2008

The new Twenty-20 format of cricket has received a mixed reception. Emphemeral Ruminations writes an open letter to the cricket purists.

India: Eating more

  14 May 2008

George Bush recently indicated that food prices had gone up because China and India were consuming more food. Sepia Mutiny has more.

India: Jaipur blasts, Terrorism and the Government

  14 May 2008

On 13th May, serial blasts rocked Jaipur. Reports suggest that more than sixty people were killed, and another 150 were injured. MyZone writes about Jaipur, which as a city has been relatively peaceful, and the sheer panic the blasts created. Disbelief turned into shock as over the fifteen minutes the...

Sri Lanka: Images from Burma

  12 May 2008

Restrictions on media in Burma have meant that the world has to rely on the Burmese government broadcaster for information and visuals, explains Moving Images, Moving People.

Sri Lanka: Creating wealth

  9 May 2008

Deane's Dimension takes a look at the issue of poverty, and writes that the question is not how poverty can be reduced, but how wealth can be created.

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