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Socionomics / Raj Liberhan 12:29 PM | July 17,2008
Indian cities generate nearly 120,000 tonnes of waste everyday; while the fiscal crisis would impoverish us, the faecal one will choke us
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Socionomics/ Raj Liberhan 09:50 AM | May 02,2008
Exaggeration is the key to success if the over hyped, repeated affirmations of success, glory and achievement of sportspersons, politicians, socialites and even humble job seekers is any indication
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Socionomics/ Raj Liberhan 11:33 AM | April 15,2008
Treasury of the state and its assets are at the disposal of a symbolically ‘civil’ servant of the people and neither the law nor the people of the land can seek or enforce his accountability
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Socionomics/Raj Liberhan 12:02 PM | March 25,2008
A tongue-in-cheek look at who really controls the world and watches over lesser mortals as they go about playing their roles
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Socionomics/ Raj Liberhan 10:40 AM | February 26,2008
Its that time of the year when forecasts, economic outlooks and the country’s future get debated, analyzed and pronounced from anything that swings between extremes of ‘grim’ and ‘hopeful
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Socionomics/ Raj Liberhan 12:55 PM | February 13,2008
Gallileo’s surmise that the earth is round is perhaps more accurate today as compared to the adage that got coined later, suggesting that the world is equal
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Socionomics / Raj Liberhan 08:44 AM | January 28,2008
The recent Sydney cricket controversy has spawned passionate response from a cricket loving nation; our fortnightly column on governance and issues that impact our lives looks at the happenings in a lighter vein
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Socionomics/ Raj Liberhan 10:19 AM | January 16,2008
An election in India is not the culmination of the triumph of ideology; very often it is the triumph of competitive pedagogy
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Raj Liberhan/ Socionomics 09:36 AM | December 27,2007
A new paradigm must restore, respect and harness a transformation - from a separation of powers to a healthy and respectful collaboration of powers
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Raj Liberhan/ Socionomics 12:41 PM | December 06,2007
Our`problems’, (read cities) need a rescue act if they must graduate from being`pinds’; Shanghai lookalikes are faraway dreams in a land where speech is free but actions rare
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Raj Liberhan/ Socionomics 02:23 PM | November 21,2007
Absence of ethics and morality has been the hallmark of international relations but only a handful have spoken for the vast legions of humanity
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Raj Liberhan/ Socionomics 12:17 PM | October 12,2007
Why should Incredible India be at war with God’s own country? The two have to live together without coming in each other’s way
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Socionomics/ Raj Liberhan 10:16 AM | September 27,2007
Rat race is about getting past your rival, no matter how and thriving at someone else’s expense but is there any race for being most humane, decent and generous to the poor of this world?
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Socionomics/ Raj Liberhan 12:03 PM | September 11,2007
John Kenneth Galbraith called India a functional anarchy 30 years ago, but what exists today is a perfect picture of just anarchy and adhocism, that has seeped into every aspect of public and private life
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Socionomics/ Raj Liberhan 09:56 AM | August 29,2007
Targetting the teaching community by brigades comprising advocates of education reforms to treat all infractions of discipline with kid gloves may be an overkill; learning civics must begin in school
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