If any lesson is to come out of the current financial crisis, it is that the pipedream of corporate social responsibility needs to be shelved.

With the largest corporate fraud in its history, India has finally entered onto the global financial stage?

With companies hardwired to make money, the impetus behind CSR can only function as advertisement – largely empty and potentially misleading.

The Satyam scandal provides an opportunity to sit back and take a hard look at business journalism in India.

A few lessons are available from a country that has been reeling from its own corporate scandals - the United States.

A mass campaign is needed to convince the Sinhalese majority that devolution and democratisation are in its interest and in the interest of Sri Lanka´s minorities.

Odd hunger and dubious dishes.

Once again the old malaise of brownouts shadows the region.

The general consensus seems to be that the ‘system’ is flawed and requires urgent change.

While the Swat agreement indicates social regression it also holds out the hope for silencing the guns.

Mailing pink chaddis, setting brasseries afire and more, all for the sake of women´s rights.

Chobi Mela V brought the world to Dhaka.

Nearly a quarter-century after the first movement, the renewed agitation for a Gorkhaland state has reawakened old hopes.

Corporate monopoly over seeds is not the answer to the global food crisis, but rather an unacknowledged cause of it.

A complicated and veiled system of tariffs allows Western countries to protect their tiny farming populations while millions of farmers in developing countries are swamped under a tide of cheap imports. Such systemic hypocrisy in international trade must be confronted for the sake of the global poor.

From the distance of centuries, the struggles of the East India Company to control its officials look depressingly familiar.

Capturing the beauty of loadshedding

This historic passage is again becoming dangerous – though this is nothing new.

The legacy of N Chauvin lives on in Southasia.

There’s more of one than the other in Sri Lanka today.

A comprehensive tome on the rise and fall of empires.

Tejpal´s contemporary India masquerading as fiction.

A tale about a Tibetan student in Delhi and his political growth as an exile.

Key lessons for dealing with the vagaries of the Kosi’s annual cycle are to be found in the myths and folklore of the North Indian plain.

Indian officials and administrators continue to plan ineffective flood-protection interventions along the Kosi, even though there is a straightforward solution.

Any change made to a river alters the structure of the entire system. In the Himalaya in particular, the consequences of doing so are just as great.

Like the vagaries of nature, rivers too cannot be understood in isolation.

The longest, undivided, fully-clothed, shark-free mud-beach in the world.