Date archive for September, 2010
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Nepal: suffering politically and economically
By Rajan Koirala After a decade-long agitation by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), several weeks of mass protests by major political parties and demands of the general public, the Nepalese monarchy was overthrown, establishing the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal on May 28, 2008. In a decade and half, millions of Nepalese lost their lives [...]
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Krugman’s Third Depression or Collapse like 1990s Russia?
Susmit Kumar, Ph.D. According to Paul Krugman, the economy is in the early stages of a third depression and it will probably look more like the Long Depression of the 19th Century that followed the Panic of 1873 than the much more severe 1930’s Great Depression. According to him, the cost – to the world [...]
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Discovering PROUT
Though I come from a family of medical doctors and I have an MS in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. I am presently working as a Device Failure Analysis Engineer in the Advanced CMOS technology development team at Texas Instruments. While growing up in India, I have seen the suffering of the poor and [...]
