by Vinoth Ramachandra | Apr 22, 2014 | Opinion
India, the world’s largest democracy, is currently involved in a general election process that will take many weeks to execute. Cynics have often raised the question of what democracy can mean in a country where as much as a quarter of the population cannot read...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Mar 26, 2014 | Opinion
More than 400 Nepali migrant workers have died on Qatar’s building sites since the Gulf state won the bid to host the soccer World Cup in 2022. At the same time, more than 20 Indian laborers die on average every month on Qatar’s construction sites....
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jan 30, 2014 | Opinion
What is the relation between moral goodness and intellectual insight? The modern assumption is that there is no connection, that ethics inhabits a different realm altogether from knowledge. This view would have been incomprehensible to the great sages of both the...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Nov 11, 2013 | Opinion
The continuing disclosures, thanks to Edward Snowden, of the global extent of American spying programs are faintly humorous. One would love to know, for instance, what possible benefits American governments have gained from 10 years of listening in to Angela...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Aug 27, 2013 | Opinion
I have spent the past three weeks in New Zealand, a land of spectacular beauty and rich in ecological diversity. Little wonder that, following the success of the “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit,” filmmakers have been descending in droves to...
