by Vinoth Ramachandra | Dec 18, 2014 | Opinion
The tens of thousands of Hong Kong residents, prominent among them high school and university students, whom the world saw on the streets of the territory for two months since September, were reasonable and peaceful, even in the face of sometimes terrible provocation.... by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jul 30, 2014 | Opinion
The pictures of Israeli civilians watching and cheering from a hilltop at the heart-rending massacre of people in Gaza by tanks and aircraft are chilling. Gaza is neither a state nor a country. It has no army. Sandwiched between Egypt on one side and the Israeli army... by Vinoth Ramachandra | Jun 4, 2014 | Opinion
The French economist Thomas Piketty’s monumental “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is being widely acclaimed as a classic on par with Marx’s “Capital” and Keynes’ “General Theory.” Paul Krugman summarizes... 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....