Category Archives: Food

Food Security

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa As the political theater shifts from Camp David – in the woods of Maryland this past weekend, after the G8 meeting – to the windy city of Chicago on the shores of Lake … Continue reading

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Taliban: The Afghan Opium Problem

By Snehal Manjrekar, India Subject Matter/Language Editor: Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The Silk Road, about 400 years ago, was a giant trade corridor covering a colossal swath of geography with diverse climatic conditions from Turkey to China served … Continue reading

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Sustainability In India

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Dr Manmohan Singh ‏@PMOIndia PMO move to constitute Project Clearance Board along the lines of FIPB to speed up projects - http://pmindia.gov.in/press-details.php?nodeid=1467 … Transformations ‏@c_tamirisa  @PMOIndia India needs structural reform of government. Planning Commission can be the one gov … Continue reading

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A Short Note On The US Economy

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa From Hyderabad, India: The most interesting of the three pieces of statistics released by the US government on the economy – unemployment rate, inflation and gross domestic product (GDP) growth is the November 2011 … Continue reading

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Optimal Energy Policy For Agriculture And Industry

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The war on coal, harvested off the shores of 19th century England to power the industrial revolution under the soot blanketed skies of London of Mary Poppins and her coterie of chimney sweepers, has … Continue reading

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Inflation, Debt Ceiling, Liquidity Trap, Stagflation, Depression: The Meaning Of The Economic Mumbo Jumbo

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Preparations are being made at the Federal Reserve to set the third boat, QE 3, into sail should the economy sink as economic woes rise. The Fed is seeking solace in its preferred inflation … Continue reading

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Geology, Politics And Geopolitics

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa When the earth beneath our feet moves our politics changes, as if to remind us not to take the daily turns of the earth and our lives on it for granted. It had moved … Continue reading

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Ecce Homo: A Critique Of Jesus

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa ut cognoscatis quia in eo nullam causam invenio et purpureum vestimentum et dicit eis ecce homo Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And he saith to them: … Continue reading

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Stability In Yamoussoukro

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (To the people of Côte d’Ivoire) “Fiers Ivoiriens, le pays nous appelle. Si nous avons dans la paix ramené la liberté, Notre devoir sera d’être un modèle De l’espérance promise à l’humanité, En forgeant, … Continue reading

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Two Views of an Empire of Liberty

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa “Even those as aristocratic as the wealthy slaveholding planter William Byrd and Francis Fauquier, a colonial governor of Virginia, conceded that all men, even men of different nations and races, were born equal and … Continue reading

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