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Posted on: August 12th, 2010For a country accustomed to gloating about GDP growth figures and taking these as a measure of achievement, here is sobering advice from NR Narayana Murthy, founder of Infosys Technologies, India’s second-largest infotech firm. Stop focussing exclusively on 8 or 8.5% growth, look at the sorry state of affairs on the governance [...]
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Government meddling has deprived victims of the deadly Bhopal gas leak of fair compensation.On Tuesday, a district court in Bhopal, India, found seven former Union Carbide India Ltd. (UCIL) officials guilty of “causing death by negligence” for a gas leak at a pesticide factory in that city over 25 years ago. The officials were sentenced to two years in prison and fined 100,000 rupees ($2,130) each for failing to prevent the tragedy. The victims of the gas leak, activists in Bhopal and the Indian media in general, have rightfully labeled the court’s verdict as too little too late. Often referred to as the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, the incident should instead be dubbed the Bhopal Gas Tragedies; the first caused by UCIL and the second by the Indian government. The Bhopal disaster was the worst industrial accident ever to hit India. Just after midnight on December 3, 1984, tens of thousands of pounds of methyl isocyanate, a highly toxic gas used in chemical manufacturing, were released into the air over the area. Estimates of the death toll vary widely—from just under 4,000 to around 15,000—but it’s undisputed that thousands of people died in the hours after they inhaled the gas, and thousands more from health problems they developed later as a result of their exposure. Singapore: India has the most inefficient bureaucracy in Asia and red-tape is much worse than in China, says a survey. In the ranking of 12 countries, India has been named as having the most inefficient bureaucracy followed by Indonesia and the Philippines, according to the survey of expatriate business [...] We talk a lot about the availability bias here on Neuroworld, so I don’t think I have to tell you how much you overestimate the possibility of being on a plane brought down by terrorism. Still, it’s worth taking a look at this graphic, via Gawker and [...]  Tags: al qaeda, bias, biases, gawker, intelligence matter, nate, rooftops, scream, tipping the scales, yell |  Category: Government |  Comments are closed Nobody lives in this world alone. We live in a society with all sorts of knowledge, experience and notions that the world provides us. Almost all the source of our inferences about the world are outcomes of various experiences that the world itself provides us. Suppose you’re a good person, and you [...] Tags: biased media, good person, haters, husband wife, inferences, living in a world, Mother-in-law, negative inference, tiny minority, wife beaters | Category: Government, News | Comments are closed Recently I attended a domestic violence conference hosted by a church in my community. “The Church’s Role in Addressing Domestic Violence in the Faith Community,” the glossy brochure explained. The program featured a Proclamation by President Barack Obama filled with heart-rending language about the “devastating impact” of domestic violence on women and children. The conference included a workshop a dramatic presentation of The Yellow Dress, a play based on stories of women who were victims of dating violence. I opted to screen a video called “Defending our Lives,” featuring the accounts of five women incarcerated for murdering their partners. All insisted their lethal actions were taken solely in self-defense. But from the beginning, it was clear an ideologically-fueled agenda was lurking in the background. Because research shows, over and over, that women are equally likely to aggress against their intimate partners. The video commenced with a stark warning; “There is a war against women in this country.” Tags: Abuse, dating violence, domestic violence, domestic violence conference, dramatic presentation, faith community, Gender Abuse, glossy brochure, intimate partners, Laws, lethal actions, motor vehicle accidents, richard gelles, serial rapists | Category: Common Cause, Government, Politics, Social | Comments are closed |
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