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Interview

Amartya Sen on elections, communal politics and inequality in India

8 April 2014 -

There is no lack of famous Indians, but few of the more than 1.2 billion Indians will come close to the global renown and respect of Amartya Sen, Nobelprize for Economy in 1998 and author of numerous books on economy, development, identity and justice. Sen has been living and working in the West for decades, but he is looking forward to being part ...

Interview

India organizes the real Mother of all Elections

7 April 2014 -

The 7th of April is the starting day of the parliamentary elections in India, the results of which will be available on the 16th of May.Manjeev Singh Puri, India’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU, will guide us through the peculiarities of t ...

Essay

Five rules to successfully debate India

1 October 2013 -

Europalia India will flood Brussels and vicinity with arts from India, from October to February. MO* provides a survival guide to navigate the endless receptions and discussions accompanying all those exhibitions, cultural shows, performances and encounters that arrive from the country that Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze describe as ‘islands of C ...

Opinion

Street versus State

9 July 2013 -

Street protests have been occupying the international limelight the past weeks. Is this the new way to actively practice democracy? Or does the surge of the street spell the demise of the democratic state?

News

Rwanda's economic challenges

15 November 2012 -

Rwanda is under heavy international criticism for its alleged support to the M23 rebels in Congo. Major donors such as the United States have threatened with suspending or reducing assistance, which would immediately lead to economic woes. Gie Goris visited the country of a thousand hills to better understand the country’s economic agenda and the c ...

News

Guy Standing: 'Social competition with emerging economies is crazy'

5 January 2012 -

Guy Standing, professor Economic Security at the university of Bath, UK, and founding member of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) published the bestselling book The Precariat. The New Dangerous Class. His criticism of the way European governements are responding to the financial crisis is scathing.

News

Temperature is rising in Kabul

1 September 2011 -

With the arrival of spring, the war in Afghanistan returned in full force. All parties involved are struggling to be ready for the announced withdrawal of the international military presence, and for potential negotiations between rebels, government and international community. An eyewitness report from Jalalabad, Kabul and surrounding areas.

News

Spring will only come to Afghanisthan when it begins to thaw in Kashmir

28 April 2010 -

Kashmir is an explosive mixture of colonial hangovers, national identities, regional ambitions, serious human rights violations, increasingly scarse water and a global jihad. No surprise, then, to see the violence in Kashmir being linked to the war in Afghanistan and the violent uprisings in Pakistan. Geographical proximity and religious-ideologica ...

News

Cardinal William Levada: Neoliberalism is not compatible with Catholic social teaching

14 February 2007 -

Some call him the Catholic Secretary of Ideology, others the numero due of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinal William Joseph Levada is Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. That makes him a Very Important Bishop, at least. Cardinal Levada took out time for an in-depth interview with MO*, one of the first such interviews since ...