Professor R K Amin, member of the Board of Scholars of CCS, passed away on Tuesday, November 30. He was the most ardent and prolific advocate of liberty in Gujarati language. We had the previledge of publishing his Kisan Bole Chhe in Gujarati. He was the first Indian…

The government plans to table a new Right to Information (or Freedom of Information) bill in this session of the Parliament. There are many laudable changes in the new bill, but the basic assumption that people must ask and pay for any information they want from, of, or about the government still…

The municipal corporation of Delhi will auction sites for holding weekly bazaar at the end of Janurary 2005. You can bid for the authorised as well as the unauthorised market sites! I wonder this means that you can choose an area you want to hold the weekly bazaar and then…

The Last Station story in the recent issue of the Businessworld magazine talks about private railway lines still operating in India. Their story is about Shakuntala Railway, a century-old narrow gauge line that was laid by a British company in Maharastra. It mentions Darjeeling Himalyan…