The Community’s Conscience
Jury trials were abolished in India after a notorious 1960 trial. But the lacunae in the…
‘Little’ help from our friends
Koli Mitra puts the much-applauded microcredit and microlending schemes, championed by the likes of the Grameen…
Held In Trust: Individual Actors and the Gestalt of “Social Ownership”
We live in the Anthropocene world where human activity manipulates or even dictates nature. The question…
Home and the World: Indian Americans and their “unnatural” Political Comfort Zone
Even though the Republicans are quite akin to the Narendra Modi led BJP government in terms…
Wasting water like it is money
The serious issue of water scarcity has often been side-lined owing to massive industrialisation and “corporate…
‘Flush and Forget’ System – the impending water crisis
It might seem that the crux of the sanitation issue revolves around people without access to…
You Think You Know Me?
Koli Mitra explores the issue of essentialism in how non-Muslims relate to Muslims in a world…
Coup de Tête: A Radical Takeover of Your Head
As we speak, Orwellian forces are creating …and gradually introducing into mainstream society… slippery speech patterns…
Strange Bedfellows
Gridlock, consensus, cynicism, cooperation… obtaining the ‘consent of the governed’ by proxy…? Koli Mitra looks at…
Let there be Lies: Making the Map of a Universe of Make-Believe
Are insight and deception two sides of the same coin? Koli Mitra considers how the artifice…