Monday, August 2, 1999
Lessons on the tarmac
In her remarkably researched and attractively titled book Blossoms in the Dust, Kusum Nayar narrates an interesting yet illuminating encounter she had with a group of impoverished farm workers in a small hamlet near Palakkad in Kerala.
Mobile worlds
A world frenziedly mapping milestones as December 31 approaches strangely fa-iled to appreciate a twentieth birthday last month.
Floods and fast food
Someone briefed after a donors' meeting for Bangladesh told me what the grumbles were all about: population growth, global warmin-g, natural calamities, huge debts, and not enough food for everyone.
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