Aaron Swartz, born on November 8, 1986, a blogger, programmer, activist and an online prodigy, who died in 2013, left behind strong writing that still has the power to rally others behind his causes of freedom of information, revolutionising government and fighting corruption. Some of his quotes strike a raw nerve “Information is power. But…
Despite challenging obstacles schemes to bring technology to the forefront are bearing fruit in India. Nandan Nilekani’s legacy to India, World’s largest Democracy, was not only as a c0-founder of Infosys – the Indian Information Technology group, but also gave every 1.3 billion Indian a biometrically verified digital identity, but when he stood for the…
The international influence of British popular culture including the unsung stars of English stage and their cameos in Harry Potter , Top Gear, Del Boy, Andrew Lloyd Webber is the subject of Dominic Sandbrook’s The Great British Dream Factory. With the British financial relevance on the vane, Dominic argues that it is our vision and…
A book written by Andy Weir has been transformed into a film directed by Ridley Scott which covers several levels of survival – the lead character, Mark Watney, for example, being left on Mars when his crew abandon the planet in a spaceship under bad weather conditions, thinking Mark to be dead. Mark – played by Matt Damon, not only…
“The Chinar Leaves” by Veteran Congress leader ML Fotedar, to whom late Indian Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi during her visit to Srinagar in 0ctober 1984, had shared her premonition that “Priyanka her granddaughter will shine and the next century will be the new generation, as people will see me in her” and as she…
Martin Sandbu’s Europe’s Orphan makes you think again, an indepth analysis of the Eurozone crisis as he argues that the system is right plagued with wrong policies. Sandbu traces European Monetary Union back to the desire for greater European unity after the Second World War, and the euro’s creation coincided with a credit bubble that…
This book, published by Quartet, is the second by Robert Montagu, son of the Earl of Sandwich, with one older brother and four older sisters. It tells the story of his youth after his mother had left the family with nannies and his father in charge, his mother, married at 18, apparently going to live…
In the past politician’s wealth and where the money comes from and how it is spent, all could be hidden in the glare of publicity. Today’s politicians have to be more open about their wealth, like the public obsession with Hillary Clinton’s wealth of scandal in the UK over MP’s expenses claims. The history of…
Charles Moore get indepth into the mid 1980s glory years. Late Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher the Iron Lady confronted enemies within the UK, including the 1984-85 miners’ strike,,as she was determined to reduce the powers of the trade unions. When in March 1984 the miner’s leader Arthur Scargill called a national strike in response to the…
Hidden tax havens controls almost a tenth of the world’s financial wealth. Tax evasion by the super rich has pushed trillions of pounds out of government’s reach. This book is must read for all those interested in Future of democracy, inequality and global justice. This book provides the fascinating history of tax havens and what…