This essay, by our Mumbai correspondent, won the first prize at the "EU-India Essay Contest for Young Indian Journalists" organized by the Delegation of the European Commission in In

BY Charubala Annuncio 2 May 2005

Why does surplus food rot or just goes waste when thousands die of hunger? Simple: government apathy to an under-developed food processing and packaging industry.

BY Charubala Annuncio 28 May 2003

The government works towards eventual intention to meet WTO expectations. Pharma companies want more and a PIL filed in Karnataka High Court questions the soaring prices of life saving drugs. Who's to blame?

BY Charubala Annuncio 20 May 2003

Who decided what various Hindu gods and goddesses ought to look like? Who gave them sublimely beautiful human form, making them divine yet accessible? Hint: the same gentleman also made art accessible by beginning to publish prints...

BY Charubala Annuncio 7 May 2003

Public art has never been so public that you can touch it and feel it without someone brandishing his dismissive finger at you.

BY Charubala Annuncio 25 February 2003

That's what a critic friend jokingly called her once. Others have mused in print about what Anjolie Ela Menon is doing in the thirteenth century (Europe, of course) We tried to get some answers.

BY Charubala Annuncio 20 February 2003

Case studies ofcompanies/promoters who have not repaid their loans to financialinstitutions and may well have to pay up because of the new Securitisation Act that allows FIs to take over assets of NPAs.

BY Charubala Annuncio 27 December 2002

Schröder clinched his victory on two unexpected matters -- his stance on Iraq and the floods in the country. Never before has a foreign matter been so significant in tipping the scales.

BY Charubala Annuncio 22 September 2002