Hira Jhamtani | Jul 24, 2016 | Free Thinking
You Don’t have to be a superhero to save the Earth. Just do nothing. This was the slogan in 2008-2009 to usher in the World Silent Day Campaign. Essentially this is based on the tradition in Bali of 24 hours of inactivity to rejuvenate people and give the earth...
Hira Jhamtani | Jun 26, 2016 | Free Thinking
Money and debt can be sold and bought in the market. The lack of regulation in this market has led to the repeated so called global financial crisis. How and why does the global financial crisis occur every few years? It is beyond the understanding of the population...
Hira Jhamtani | Jun 15, 2016 | Free Thinking
The words ‘aid’ and ‘help’ can be misleading. They may mean grants, loans, lines of credit or technical assistance. Almost all these forms of aid have conditionalities attached. And .. we often failed to question the intent behind so called development aid. This is...
Hira Jhamtani | Jan 20, 2016 | Free Thinking
The World Social Forum, for some time at least, created a platform for change. Its motto Another World is Possible challenged the status quo of the neoliberalism and globalization era. I do not know what happened to that spirit today. As a reminder to the Another...
