No matter how they may cringe, energy, pharma and tobacco industries are choosing to remain silent. Wisely so. Their flattering profits in a flux of economic times are raising allegations of 'blood money', unconscionable money making bartering human lives and the usual bartering health. Oil compani

The unfortunate demise of the non-aligned movement had as much to do with geo-politics as it did with transnational corporation economic aspirations. India had been one of the last to hold true to self-sufficiency before succumbing to economic realities of feeding a massive population. More than ha

Britain's war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill was wont to brooding. Weighing heavily on his mind was the political shenanigans that pushed him from a nobody to the coveted position of the then Empire. He had been set up for failure. Except those that had so lined him up made a cardinal mistak

Goodbye middle class. Hello, middle class. Strange as the words may seem the shift has taken place. Sociologists will fret and frown as the centuries old definition comes under challenge. At the turn of the 19th century leading up to and intertwined between the two great wars society's structure un

Bright eyed executives are nowadays told to be disruptive. The new term replaces 'out-of-the-box thinking' that has, as with most buzzwords fast become a cliché. The newness comes in the form of, to use another cliché, 'shaking the tree' of conformity. Sometimes it works; sometimes it

Honest ordinary citizens prefer as uncomplicated a life as is possible. Consciously or otherwise put together balanced monthly budgets play a major role in that equation. Expectations from governments are the wherewithal of providing that balance, preferably with a little extra to tide over rainy d

Mavericks provide spice in the flow of the usual. The appeal comes as much from the thrill of everything unexpected as it does from the audacious. That could well explain the lure of electorate for a Donald Trump or a Boris Johnson. The marked difference lies in the general psyche of a nation. The

Mavericks provide spice in the flow of the usual. The appeal comes as much from the thrill of everything unexpected as it does from the audacious. That could well explain the lure of electorate for a Donald Trump or a Boris Johnson. The marked difference lies in the general psyche of a nation. The