Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Thoughts on the Bombay municipal elections

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Proving that bigotry and its oft-handmaiden of poor sartorial flourishes don’t respect geographic boundaries, George Wallace’s spiritual suc...
Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Letter regarding Amnesty International release

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(I sent the following note to Amnesty International after reading their press release Amnesty International condemns murder of journalist ....
Sunday, January 28, 2007

Corruption in Haiti’s senate?

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Haitian senator Gabriel Fortuné has leveled a charge most grave that his colleagues in the Haitian body politic were bribed in exchange for...
Friday, January 26, 2007

Ailing Health System Defies Easy Fix

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With travel and all, it has taken me a little while to post this, but here please find a link to my recent story for the Inter-Press Servic...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

Haiti: Champions of the Caribbean

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It's been a long time that I've been waiting to write those words and Haiti's football team has finally made it possible. Haiti ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Sir Vidia and Shalimar

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The critic Namita Bhandare has a very interesting article in today’s Hinudstan Times looking at the differences and similarities between tw...
Monday, January 22, 2007

Salaam Bombay

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I saw them from the taxi on the ride back from Bandra last night, as we were passing through Worli and getting ready to make the arc out ont...
Sunday, January 21, 2007

Haiti's Mythical Man

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I'm not usually the type to make more than one posting in the course of a single day, but the Miami Herald published my review of noveli...
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Adivasis, Naxalites and the future of India

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I attended a very interesting lecture at the Nehru Centre in Worli by the noted Indian writer and academic Ramachandra Guha on the subject...
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Friday, January 19, 2007

A shabby little affair

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As a progressive journalist who seeks to hold governments of all ideological stripes accountable for their actions towards their citizens, ...
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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Sunrise in Colaba

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Having made the decision to shift my accommodations from the colorful but filthy and almost dizzyingly polluted Fort Area to a flat in the s...
Sunday, January 14, 2007

Saddam to the gallows, more troops to Iraq and more maximum city

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I am a bit late getting around to talking about it, of course, but, for anyone who has been living under a rock for the last several weeks, ...
Tuesday, January 09, 2007

The Train to Bandra

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Yesterday, visiting an Indian journalist, I ventured out to Bandra, an increasingly chic Bombay suburb that is worlds away in look and feel ...
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Thursday, January 04, 2007

First posting from Mumbai

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Saffron, incense, sewage, exhaust and sundry spices have never blended in such an intoxicating aroma.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Haitian senator: Aristide party involved in kidnapping plague

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As Haitian senator Gabriel Fortuné, speaking to Radio Metropole, fingers former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and sectors of his Fanmi L...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Fin de l'année review

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Here is a quick review of some of the articles that I authored this year: Accustomed to scandal in Newsday (March 6, 2006) Drug gangs plagu...
Sunday, December 24, 2006

Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!

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After a 2006 that was productive in many ways and left something to be desired in others, here is a wish to all for much contentment over th...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Response to Roberto Alvarez, Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the OAS

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(I recently had an exchange of views with Roberto Alvarez , the Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the OAS, on the Domini...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

The passing of a tyrant

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The Economist has an unusually eloquent epitaph to the life of General Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, and who died las...
Saturday, December 16, 2006

A Senator is kidnapped, then escapes

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The kidnapping scourge that has plagued Haiti reached a new peak this week with not only the kidnapping of some 20 schoolchildren (nine of ...