In 1993, Chick Corea put together the second version of his Elektric Band and recorded what has turned out to be one of my favourite jazz-fusion discs of all time - the seminal Paint The World (those who have been following this blog might remember this post). The lineup replaced…
Who is it helping the most? Large consumers of petrol. i.e. Ford Endeavour owners blasting the AC with a special power point for the computer. Or, people like my boss who drive a converted Merc van with a DVD player and a drinks cooler. These are not the people…
$135 a barrel. Headline news worldwide. World poised for the outbreak of fuel riots. All of America on the abyss. Is it really happening? It would be to boring to get into an introductory discussion about peak oil but the uninitiated can follow the discussion at http://theoildrum.com Peak…
It was jusgt a few days ago that I told someone - sometime before 2009 is over we will see extreme poverty being brought about by nothing more than a collapse of the world’s monetary systems. Seems like it is coming to pass already. GWB’s recent comments regarding…
There is a particular kind of nerd that is so smug about the number of things he knows that he forgets that facts are for analysing, not for remembering. Like Borges’s Funes the Memorius, this nerd keeps collecting information without ever being able to hew a coherent whole…
I’ll say it again - economics is a religion. It is not a science, it is not art, it is not a social science. It is, essentially, a body of knowledge designed to provide ideological backing for the rule of a certain class of people thereby allowing them…
Recipe for an Oscar - take a script that bashes what passed for Socialism behind the Iron Curtain, make it long and boring, toss in some cardboard characters, add dollops of melodrama and voila - turn up to collect your golden statuette. Seeing as how the vast majority of reviews…
Of course the Tata’s fabled one-lakh car is a civil disaster waiting to happen. Looking at our choked streets, and in Mumbai at our choked six-lanes-each-way Express Highway, it is not apparent to the casual observer that what is required here is more cars. Infact, an alien from outer…
The other day I turned on the TV to watch the last round of the Lead India campaign on Star One. There had been a bit of a buzz in the office about this, with people saying that oh, any educated leader is better than the uneducated louts we have…
Welcome to [Main Sponsor] Lead The World - A [Promoter’s Name] Initiative’s special Hall of Fame edition of [Main Sponsor] Lead India - A [Promoter’s Name] Initiative. So, we have with us today amongst the finest of leaders, political philosophers, thinkers and writers of all ages, and…