by Vinoth Ramachandra | Sep 16, 2019 | Opinion
My admiration for Bernie Sanders was badly dented recently by his faux pas: calling for population control by the world’s poor as a way of curbing climate change. No doubt the poor need better health education and access to reliable contraceptives, but not because in...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | May 8, 2018 | Opinion
Racism and sexism are increasingly, and belatedly, being identified as big issues at North American, Western European and Australian universities and are not merely “developing country” phenomena. See, for instance, the recent report from a British task...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jul 19, 2017 | Opinion
While hate crimes committed by and against Muslims in Europe receive increasing attention in the global media, the rise of Hindu vigilantism in India receives scant coverage. Yet, the loss of life and the levels of terror under which Muslim and other religious...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jun 6, 2017 | Opinion
The United States has signed the biggest arms sale in its history (a staggering $100 billion) with Saudi Arabia. There is much irony here, not to mention moral revulsion. For consideration: 1. The Saudi Arabian air force (comprising predominantly American and British...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Mar 28, 2017 | Opinion
Helen Zille, the former leader of South Africa’s main opposition party and the current premier of the Western Cape, recently tweeted, “For those claiming legacy of colonialism was ONLY negative, think of our independent judiciary, transport infrastructure,...
