Bush made a martyr of Saddam, a hero out of bin Laden
As the neoncon wet dream of a militaristic and aggressive, bullying America goes up in flames, as the policies of the people who pull Bush's strings and make his lips move sprint toward a total Middle...
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Buddhism and the Universal Concept of Social Responsibility
Studying in Japan back in college, I had a very unique Buddhist experience, one of which I did not understand until years afterwards. I had joined a Buddhist student group that took me to the far...
View ArticleRevolution Brewing in Bihar
Something’s brewing in Bihar. After decades of being India’s most notoriously 'backward' state, the Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has tempered corruption, built roads and spurred development. Given the...
View ArticleMeet Uttar Pradesh, India's Next Distributed Solar Hotbed
Much attention has been paid to the distributed clean energy revolution brewing in Bihar. But for all the hype generated by Minister Kumar, what's happening next door in Uttar Pradesh may be even more...
View ArticleBangladesh Hits 1 Million Solar Home Systems
A few months back Nancy Wimmer told us about Bangladesh's solar success. In one of the poorest countries on earth a renewable energy company, Grameen Shakti, is busy installing nearly 1,000 solar home...
View ArticleSocial Bankability, Solar Crowdfunders, & Emerging Markets
If we are going to avoid the worst impacts of climate change we need disruptive innovations that fundamentally alter the broken systems that continue to build out inequitable, fossil fueled societies....
View ArticleWhy are dozens of Indian authors returning the country's most prestigious...
The Sahitya Akademi was created in 1954 as India's national insitute for letters. Every year it gives 25 awards, one each for a literary work in India's 22 recognized languages (Assamese, Bengali,...
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Protesters shut off water to New Delhi last month and the gov't has arrested...
Less than half way through it’s 5-year term in power, PM Narendra Modi’s administration is confronting a series of political and economic challenges that it appears to have been ill-prepared for. In...
View ArticleA lynching: The terrible truths of our existence.
Back in October, I wrote about a man, Mohammed Akhlaq, who was killed by a mob that suspected he had eaten beef.On Friday, Mazlum Ansari (32), and Imteyaz Khan (15), were found dead hanging from a tree...
View ArticleThe most dangerous and violent narcotics cartel the world has ever seen.
President Trump, addressing African representatives at the UN: “I have so many friends going to your countries trying to get rich, I congratulate you.”To many observers, this remark sounded a whole lot...
View ArticleAn inspirational candidate in Indian Elections
I did not see any stories here about the Indian Parliamentary elections. In a scary time when Indian religious right has taken over the Indian government in the last elections and running these...
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Building Complex for “Untouchable” Kids in India
New York, N.Y. I traveled to Delhi in South Asia just before the Pandemic to open the office of ‘The J. Luce Foundation India.” This is in Bodhgaya, Bihar on the border with Nepal. Eight years prior, I...
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Opening School, Building Orphan Home for Poorest of Poor
VOLUNTEERISMBodhgaya, India. This weekend we opened our Saraswati Centre’s free primary school and broke ground for Gaia Holistic Orphan Home with Dr. Kazuko Hillyer Tatsumura, founder. Extreme heat...
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