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Monthly Archives: June 2010

Wandering About in Slumdog Land | End Part: Keeping an Eye on the Future

Danny Boyle’s, eight Academy Awards winning yet controversial film Slumdog Millionaire, set and filmed in India, gave the country another name derivative – the Slumdog Land. The name tagging apart, the film also carried a deeper symbolism for India, a land of many contradictions.
As India surges forward in taking big strides of development, there are [...]

Abu Ghraib – Hope Rekindled?

In 2004, Abu Ghraib, an agro based region in the outskirts of Baghdad came into world attention for all the wrong reasons of human rights abuse. Thereafter, in an attempt to correct the aftermath, development agencies had been trying hard to rebuild the economic base and restore people’s confidence.  
Sunirmal K Ray, a senior international [...]