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Economic Behaviour &Globalisation | 10 Oct 2008

Bigger is not necessarily better

I have been occasionally reproved of article cut-and-paste on my blog. However, wish to clarify, that they reflect what I feel strongly about and moves me deeply, which I feel compelled to reproduce and share, with like-minded readers. Another instance of such a thought-provoking feature by Arun Maira whose depth is admirable..is being reproduced City’s [...]

Economic Behaviour &Globalisation | 07 Oct 2008

Kiplin vs Palin

As a matter of practice, I do not post anything topical or current affairs on my Blog. However, we are truly living in uncertain times. Economic meltdown, in the face of leadership crisis. It’s a pulverizing feeling.. Accordingly, I am making an exception by reproducing content of the recent brilliant & perceptive article by New [...]

Globalisation &Life &Nature | 19 Aug 2008

Land, Farmer, Community: A Sacred Trust

The recent passing away of Masanobu Fukuoka, the pioneer of ‘‘natural’’ farming, which eschews plowing, weeding and the use of fertilizers or pesticides, led me to connect and reproduce the this under noted article , which was published  in Oct 2007 Orion Magazine . Fukuoka was the author of ‘‘The One Straw Revolution,’’ The heart [...]

Economic Behaviour &Globalisation &Thought Provoking | 16 May 2008

Fear of Not Having Had..

This is thought provoking article published in recent Orion Magazine on social consumption hysteria. The first fully enclosed shopping mall in America, and probably the world, was the Southdale Center in Edina, outside Minneapolis. Built in 1956, it is credited to Austrian immigrant architect Victor Gruen, who wanted to re-create the intimate scale and feel [...]

Economic Behaviour &Globalisation | 28 Sep 2007

Our Moral Footprint

As such, my friend Michele Roohani connected the thread to my earlier post on Globalisation :by the same author: to under noted article of published in recent New York Times.. By VACLAV HAVEL :Prague OVER the past few years the questions have been asked ever more forcefully whether global climate changes occur in natural cycles [...]

Economic Behaviour &Globalisation | 07 Sep 2007

Globalisation’s human cost

Pl care to read and ponder speech by Václav Havel on human and socio-economic cost of Globalisation.. Václav Havel, (born 1936 in Prague) is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1992) and the first President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003). “The salvation of this human world lies [...]

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