‘Govt should look at credit lending, not charity for the quake victims’
It has been called Bangladesh’s most successful export -- the idea of a ‘‘grameen bank’’. For Muhammad Yunus, 60, founder of the original Grameen Bank, which after 26 years of existence lends to some 2.4 million people. He is in Delhi presently to attend the Asia Pacific Region Microcredit Summit, where he spoke to PAMELA PHILIPOSE.



The disaster divide
In Orissa, the CM’s incompetence became an excuse for the people to throw up their hands; in Gujarat it gave them a chance to assert a spirit of self-reliance.



The birth of a new politics?
There are moments in a nation’s life that leave behind more than a transient impression on the people’s psyche. The Bhuj earthquake could trigger off a new phase in politics beginning from Gujarat.



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Before the Hindujas, the Fayeds