Can 1.7 Billion Dollars Imagine Wrong?

21 February, 2013
Countercurrents.org

A review of Nandan Nilekani’s Imagining India: Ideas for the New Century (Penguin Books 2009)

If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?

It’s a daunting task to critique a book by a billionaire. JK Galbraith once wrote that conventional wisdom has it that wealth is correlated with intelligence. By that logic, the author whose book I’m reviewing, Infosys founder (net worth $1.7 billion) Nandan Nilekani is exponentially smarter than me.

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Canada and the Palestine Question, by Dan Freeman-Maloy

Dan Freeman-Maloy, whose blog is notesonhypocrisy.com, has collected several significant pieces of research on Canada and the Palestine Question and published them as a single PDF (Aaron Swartz would be proud). He has also done a major talk on the same issue, that elucidates some of the main points in the PDF. For those interested in Canadian foreign policy, for those interested in the Israel/Palestine conflict and the west’s role in it, Dan’s work is indispensable.

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The Delhi Rape and the Struggle for Space

First published at http://www.countercurrents.org/podur310113.htm

Sometimes, at night in the city where I live, in Toronto, I will be walking alone to or from the subway station. No one else will be on the street, and I’ll see a woman walking towards me in the distance. My protocol is to cross to the other side of the street where I am clearly visible, and let her pass with a lot of distance between us. When I’m walking behind a woman at night, I’ll do the same thing – cross the street, quickly pass so that she can see me in front of her rather than hearing me behind her.

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