Om Prakash Gurjar wins Children’s Peace Prize He used to work as a bonded labourer in the fields of Rajasthan to repay his grandfather’s debt. One fine day, things changed dramatically for Om Prakash Gurjar after Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) activists rescued him from bonded labour and gave him a new lease of life at [...]
“Awe is not usually a condition our buildings inspire.†Rem Koolhaas Set on a site that’s about as large as 37 football fields, Rem Koolhaas’s television authority headquarters in Beijing may initially seem intimidating. This 54-story tower leans and looms like some kind of science-fiction creature poised to stomp all over the surrounding central business [...]
Yesterday, 22th. November, The Netherlands turned voting. Although the Christian-Democrats (CDA) turned out to be (again) the largest party, the big (remarkable) winners were extreme left (the Socialist party) and extreme right (Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom, which is a hardliner in the immigration debate), both at the cost of the Labour Party (PvdA) and [...]
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in the Human Development Report 2006 report released on November 9, 2006, has said that lack of water is caused by lack of power, rather than by limited resources. “The scarcity at the heart of the global water crisis is rooted in power, poverty and equality, not in physical [...]
Next time you’re feeling a bit annoyed by your teenager’s obsession with MySpace, consider this: She and 72 million of her close friends may be shaping the future of business. That may sound like an overblown description of the role MySpace, YouTube, flickr and del.icio.us play in the ever-evolving world of the Web, but there’s [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2006