Archive for July, 2006
Salaam Mumbai: Blogging the Blasts
The final counts are in. Just under 200 dead, 500 injured. Mumbai’s bomb blasts yesterday have taken a heavy toll.
I could talk of the blasts themselves, but they have been amply reported. So I’ll talk instead of what struck me about the response of Indians.
News came to me primarily from three sources. The standard channels [...]
An Institutional Perspective on Development Aid
The World Bank’s excellent PSD Blog mentioned a report by ActionAid, criticizing development aid spent on expatriate consultants. The entry started a thought process to expand on that issue.
As I’ve argued with friends, the incentives of development aid are all wrong - meant to preserve the very poverty it is supposed to cure. I will [...]
On Football
In the dying moments of extra-time a German fan urged her countrymen to score - “I don’t want to see a penalty shootout”. Minutes later, Italy scored once, then again, sealing Germany’s fate. The German fans, never too boisterous, were stunned stone cold. For a moment I felt defeated too, having supported Germany since Brazil’s [...]
