by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jun 11, 2013 | Opinion
“Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” So runs a popular, traditional adage about economic development. But poor fishing communities don’t need us to teach them how to fish. They may...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Mar 25, 2013 | Opinion
Can the North American church become more Christian by learning from the history and politics of countries like India and Sri Lanka? Even to suggest this must come as a bit of a shock to those small but highly vocal sections within that church who believe they have...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Mar 8, 2013 | Opinion
Joseph Ratzinger, who recently stepped down as Pope Benedict XVI, was not as popular, let alone as saintly, as his predecessor John Paul II. But he has acquired a well-deserved reputation as the “Green Pope,” making the Vatican the first carbon-neutral...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Feb 12, 2013 | Opinion
Why do men like President Assad of Syria prefer to rule over rubble than surrender power? Arrogance in politics is compounded of ignorance, willful blindness and fantasies of invincibility. And when entire societies prostrate themselves before such arrogant rulers,...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Dec 18, 2012 | Opinion
After the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it is worth reflecting again on the question: whose history do we read? Toward the end of the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson presented to the Congress an ambitious scheme for a new international order...
