Economic Growth or Abnormal Swelling?
August 16, 2012 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsLPJ's India correspondent Colin Todhunter reports that India may have had eight or nine per cent economic growth until this year, but this doesn't show a true picture
LPJ's India correspondent Colin Todhunter reports that India may have had eight or nine per cent economic growth until this year, but this doesn't show a true picture
With a population of 1.2bn people, many believe that India is the arena where the future direction of humanity is being played out. However, the future of humanity may not be determined in India, but by events in a much smaller country - Syria, writes Colin Todhunter.
In 1947, Nehru spoke about a tryst with destiny. Free from the shackles of British colonialism, India was on course for a bright new future. Fast forward and witness the not so glittering outcome that Nehru didn't have in mind, writes Colin Todhunter.
The widespread killings of Rohingya Muslims in Burma - or Myanmar - have received only passing and dispassionate coverage in most media. What they actually warrant is widespread outrage, says Ramzy Baroud.
David Morgan brings to light a deeply worrying trend that exists within the Japanese modelling agency
David Morgan reports on the trial of two public figures in Turkey charged with breaking the country's dubious anti terror laws
The LPJ's India correspondent, Colin Todhunter, describes how India's true wealth creators are increasingly sidelined as temples to global capitalism spring up across the country
Thomas Riggins explains how America's haughty treatment of its ally is leading to a spectacular own goal
Colin Todhunter, London Progressive Journal's India correspondent, reports on the worrying fusion of news and entertainment that is part of modern India
Colin Todhunter, London Progressive Journal's India correspondent, reports from Chennai on how a funeral procession through a poor neighbourhood is a metaphor for where India is heading with current social and economic policies