A new chapter in moral science

With most illegal activities occurring in the dark of the night, researchers have now illuminated the effect of light on our morals

Author Anton Chekhov’s story ‘The Robbers’ brings to mind images of stealthy, sly and lustful robbers’ lamp-lit den where the on-set of night didn’t signal terminating all activities, but rather incited setting spirits to satiate their beastly cravings. Characterising the darkness of the night in myriad metaphorical ways, Chekhov kept the reader’s pulse racing till the end. If merely repetitive mention of darkness can set a person’s heart racing, could the cloak of darkness embolden some to commit crimes too?

A recent study by psychologists Chen-Bo Zhong and Vanessa Bohns of the University of Toronto and Francesca Gino of the University of North Carolina suggests that it isn’t only the fear of exposure that leads to increased incidents of misconduct in darkness. Rather, it is darkness that triggers some of the destructive emotions that may lead one to misbehave! It was the unanimity of the results of the experiments conducted that led to publishing the research in the journal Psychological Science. Participants in dimly-lit surroundings were seen to cheat more than those in the brightly-lit set-up. While in another set of participants, who were only made to wear sunglasses and asked to divide $6 amongst each other in any way they wished, it was noted that ‘darkness increased their self-interested behaviour’!

Dr. Sanjay Chugh agrees and adds to the theory here, “I would agree with this. No one likes to be caught when doing something wrong. So, people try to hide or do it on the sly. Darkness provides the best cover. 

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Scrutiny-NUCLEAR DEAL: PARADISE THAT NEVER EXISTED

Most Indians had hailed the nuclear deal with US as one of India’s greatest achievements. Instead, it is increasingly looking like one of its costliest mistakes

The 123 deal allows US the expansive power to withdraw ‘reprocessing’ rights from India. Along with destroying our thorium based nuclear ambitions, this deal also killed the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline ($7.5 billion & 2,700 kilometer pipeline) that was aimed at sharing Iran’s abundant natural gas reserves with India and Pakistan. On the contrary, it promoted another pipeline for India – the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-Indian pipeline (TAPI). This pipeline, unlike the IPI, is controlled by US oil companies and passes through US-controlled Afghan territory. Thus, this allows US to keep an eye on the energy transfer and to further moderate deals and India’s energy usage to their benefit! The IPI pipeline deal, which had fantastic diplomatic and economic benefits, started way back in 1994; but then, in the enthusiasm of signing the 123 deal, India was made to back out from the same in 2009. In the same light, to be doubly sure, US further blackmailed Pakistan and asked the nation to halt the pipeline work (at a time when India was reconsidering the IPI deal & had called for a meeting with Iran’s and Pakistan’s respective heads in May 2010) in exchange for aid and donations in January 2010. US also helped Pakistan in the construction of a liquefied natural gas plant, which will allow Pakistan to transfer electricity from Tajikistan. In summary the deal has been a shrewd double-edged sword, which on one hand, inserted a pause on India’s nuclear ambitions and on the other, stole the chance for diplomatic ties between India, Pakistan & Iran and energy sufficiency. The deal was basically done to curb Iran’s IPI plans, which is evident from how US pressurized Singh’s government as the IPI deal was getting nearer.

Policy and national strategy analyst, Brahma Chellaney, wrote recently about the deal, “In sum, India has a deal under which it got no legally binding fuel-supply guarantee to avert a Tarapur-style fuel cut-off; no irrevocable reprocessing consent; and no right to withdraw from its obligations under any circumstance, although the US has reserved the right for itself to suspend or terminate the arrangements if it holds India not to be in compliance with the stipulated terms. Moreover, the continuation of the deal will hinge on India not conducting a nuclear test ever again. These are the four “no”s embedded in the deal. In fact, this is the first case in world history where one nuclear-weapons state has used a civilian cooperation deal to impose a weapons-related prohibition on another nuclear-weapons state, which has only a rudimentary nuclear military capability.” We couldn’t agree with him less. 

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Kill their Goose, Now!

Terror Funds have to be Frozen on Top Priority, as it only Gets Harder

Just like any other business, even terrorism needs to be fuelled with money regularly to ensure that the bombs and bullets never fall silent! In fact, as an industry, terrorism today looks more driven by money and power rather than by religions and ideologies. Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of bestsellers like Funding Evil, contends that terrorism today is more “an international network of corrupt state leaders, super wealthy contributors and drug and crime kingpins”. One of the major objectives of US law enforcement post 9/11 was to ensure that the wells of terror funds stay dry. As per a report released by Assistant US Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs in 2007-08, a huge part of the remittances that flow into India are sent through illegal channels like Hawala, and are believed to facilitate terror activities as well. The Peruvian Financial Intelligence recently pointed out that “more than $3 billion moved illegally through Peru’s financial sector in 2009.” Most of it is used by terror groups.

As per a study by Homeland Security Newswire, the London transportation attack of 2005 cost $15,000, the cost of executing the 2004 train attacks in Madrid was $10,000 each and the 9/11 attacks cost around $500,000. As per CIA, the annual budget of al-Qaeda is estimated at around $30 million. Government cables sent by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2010 believe that terror is being financed using armed bank robbery in Yemen, kidnappings, drug proceeds in Afghanistan and pilgrimages to Mecca. Even the oil trade is in the line of suspicion.

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BMW has done well to Establish itself in The Domestic Market

For years Together, The Indian Luxury car market had always seen Mercedes Top The Charts. The year 2009 saw a change in The form of BMW. From the 3 Series to The Gran Turismo, BMW has done well to Establish itself in The Domestic Market. And now, it’s betting big on The New X1. Will it prove The Crowd-Puller for BMW? 

B&E: Like in 2009, the company again overtook Mercedes in the second half of 2010. What major strategies did you adopt to repeat this feat?
AS: We went the way we wanted to go. It is not about an arrogant organisation but about a self-confident organisation. We wanted to be #1 as we have always perceived that as a symbol of success. Obviously, people got nervous in the beginning of 2010, as we were running behind for months. But we did not panic and hence, did not do anything stupid. We knew that there was a new 5-Series hitting the market in the second half, which would help cover the gap. And it did just that.

B&E: The luxury car market has shaped up well in 2010. What kind of growth are you expecting in 2011?
AS: We are very bullish for next year. However, I don’t know whether we will be able to grow at the same pace as we did in 2010, because 2009 was a period of slowdown, wherein the luxury car segment did not grow much. But now with X1 in our portfolio coupled with the growth in dealership network, we do hope for double digit growth in 2011 as well.

B&E: A few days back, you turned down a deal that could have seen 101 BMW cars being purchased in Aurangabad. Some months back, your arch rival Mercedes-Benz signed a similar deal successfully. So, why did you decline the offer?
AS: We have set up dealerships across the country to treat customers as individuals. If customers group-up and start demanding a 25% discount on the retail price, no individual in the country would thereon buy BMW cars without a 25% discount. It would have been the first step of brand erosion at the cost of a 101 units increase in sales volume. Though I would have loved to sell 101 more cars, post a long discussion on this in New Delhi, we finally decided that it was not worth jeopardising the BMW brand (and dealers’ profitability) for the sake of volumes.

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A ‘Complete’ faux pas

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What comes to your mind when we say ‘The Complete Man’? With definite conviction, the answer is Raymond. Yes, for several decades, Raymond has been cajoling the desi Adams, through this phenomenally successful tagline. But it spelled disaster for it when suddenly, in the first half of 2007, the company decided to roll out woman’s suiting material. Agreed, that the company was trying to cash in on the credibility generated by the brand Raymond and venturing into woman’s suiting material was just a part of its brand extension strategy. But then, how on earth did Raymond planned to do it without doing away with its famous tagline. Even brand pundits would agree that a masculine positioning is strictly no for a feminine product. So what’s up with the venture now? That’s anybody’s guess!

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This one's on the House

Though the rise of income has guaranteed food and clothing to the average Indians, a major portion of them still remain deprived of the third basic requirement – shelter. India has been unable to provide better, safe housing to its over 350 million middle-class population. And the demand is only increasing with another hundred million coming out of poverty, thanks to the high growth of corporate sector and its better economic performance. However, the exponential increase in demand for housing but slow pace of supply is widening the demand-supply gap rapidly, which clearly calls for immediate attention and intervention from the concerned authority.

A close analysis reveals a few basic maladies – bad management and inadequate regulations. To start with, average Indians are least motivated for home-credit, and somewhere it reflects the government’s failure to encourage people to opt for credit. Innumerable economic researches reveal that housing is one of the investment options which directly contribute to the economy in any situation. Well, our government and bureaucrats perhaps forgot that. The proportion of housing loan as a percentage of India's GDP went up from 3.4 per cent in 2001 to 7.25 per cent in 2006, yet it remains abysmally low when compared with other countries. The same in US is 54 per cent, 57 per cent in UK, 40 per cent in the European Union, and 37 per cent in Malaysia, according to the National Housing Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of RBI. Along with this, limitations in infrastructural development and geographical differences are other primary hassles.....Continue

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Setting the pace

The elephant moves slowly but firmly. Its motionless figure is often undistinguishable from the brown background of forests, especially in the summers, till one reaches well within its striking distance. Bahujan Samaj Party seems to have acquired some such qualities of its election symbol. The party doubled its vote share in all the four state Assembly elections in the Hindi heartland – Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi – touted as the semifinal before the General Elections due within next six months.

So will it repeat the feat in the finals as well – in the general elections that are due in six months time? It pretty well might. For consider: it took the BSP – founded in 1984 – four Assembly polls (with a single-digit tally each time), three Parliamentary elections and a pre-poll tie up with the Samajwadi Party in 1993 to make its presence felt in Uttar Pradesh. The party had brief stints at power there with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s support in 1995, 1997 and 2002, before it secured a complete majority in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election last year. Those who smirk at the BSP’s tally this time – two seats each in Delhi and Chhattisgarh, six in Rajasthan and seven in Madhya Pradesh – need to wake up to some facts that are not so clearly written on the political wall. Its vote share in Delhi rose to 12; in Madhya Pradesh to 11; in Rajasthan to eight; and in Chhattisgarh to six.

Significantly, all these states have traditionally been two-party states, with almost no space for a third party. The Bahujan Samaj Party still bagged well over 10,000 votes in nearly half of the constituencies it contested in Delhi, and a quarter of those it did in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. “In Delhi, it demolished the notion that the BSP would damage only the Congress,” conceded a senior BJP leader, who naturally did not wish to be named. And he added that but for the BSP, the Congress would almost certainly have registered an even more emphatic win in Rajasthan than it eventually did.....Continue

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Dmitry’s tango in us backyard

Russian President’s visit to South America may well have been pegged as intended to unfasten business prospects for Russian business interests, but in reality it was to demonstrate that Moscow could manoeuvre in the US backyard in the midst of apprehension over Washington's interest in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Dmitry Medvedev wrapped up a week-long tour of Latin America last week with a meeting with Fidel Castro premeditated to reinstate a coalition and reinforce his country's position in the region.

Earlier last week, Medvedev and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez together gave the preliminary shot for a combined marine exercise in the Caribbean. The two nations also signed a nuclear collaboration accord. Also, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is visiting Ecuador to talk about nuclear collaboration with Quito.

Analysts say Russia wishes to reinforce ties with socialist regimes in Latin America in retort to US procedure to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe. Medvedev is the first Russian President to visit Cuba since 2000. Russian representatives refute that Medvedev's trip is intended to aggravate the US, but the voyage incorporated get-together with Washington's staunchest adversaries in the region.....Continue

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Inclusive growth needs to be given one more fillip to help arrest ultra movements

While the politicians are expected to do no better, what is, indeed, disturbing is that even our intellectuals, media experts and/or political analysts sometimes begin to speak their language. That’s how this dominant, hegemonic political discourse becomes a form of social and intellectual discourse, too. Sometimes, I’m compelled to believe that Bollywood offers a much better, sharper and more critical understanding of our social and political issues than our politicians, media experts and analysts put together.


Neeraj Pandey’s recent movie, “A Wednesday”, scores over several other movies on the familiar theme of ‘terrorist violence’ for two different reasons. One, because it helps us understand that one should never underestimate either the patience or the anger of a common man. If pushed too far, he may choose to find his own weird solutions to the growing menace of terrorism. Two, because it succeeds in putting human face on terror, almost inviting us to sympathise with the ‘characters’ we have only learnt to hate over the years. Neeraj Pandey doesn’t leave us in any doubt that the real question is not whether the terrorist is a Hindu or a Muslim, because he only practices the ‘religion of hatred and terror,’ something that all religions unequivocally denounce. The real question is that a terrorist, too, was a human being much before he became a terrorist. In other words, it’s the denial of social justice coupled with economic deprivation that often compels a human being, regardless of his religion, to pick up the gun. In a way, when an individual takes to terrorism, he is making a loud statement. He wants to scream and tell the society: ‘You have pushed me into the oblivion, and here I return, in my new found anonymity to throw your orderly, patterned lives into absolute ruin and anarchy.’ Terrorism is the last outpost of a civil society, triggered off by the failure of dialogue between the citizen and the state, especially when the state fails to deliver. It’s an utterly helpless scream of those citizens who wish to be heard and seen, even ready to enter a system that delivers or assures them a decent place in the mainstream. Be it Kashmir or Nagaland, Assam or Punjab, ‘terrorism’ has reared its ugly head in all those places where the process of development has given common people a miss, or wherever it has substantively failed to transform the lives of the people at the grassroots. Rather than indulge in useless rhetoric, let us give development and inclusive growth one last chance. Also let us give our people, no, not just vague promises (for they have had surfeit of these already), but a genuine reason to believe that justice is possible for all, regardless of their status, position, caste or religion. Who knows, somewhere it may help us minimise, if not eliminate, the ‘horrendous impact’ of this ‘national problem’!...Continue

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Bangladeshi migrants

The situation in Assam, meanwhile, continues to be grim. There are around six million illegal Bangladeshis. The Gauhati HC had earlier this year said that “Bangladeshis had become kingmakers in Assam”, and stressed on the need for a “strong political will” to remedy the situation. Some 855 students had died in the Assam Agitation in the 1970s and ‘80s, a movement aimed at forcing the government to identify and deport illegals. The situation, however, shows no sign of improvement even after the SC scrapped the controversial Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act, 1983, a piece of legislation that was tailor-made to protect the illegal Bangladeshis in Assam.

Arunachal Pradesh, on the other hand, seems to gain immensely from the inner line permit provision that it has, being a sensitive border state, a provision that was often seen as an obstacle in the state’s development. Here too, however, the political will is striking compared to the scenario in Assam, which through full page advertisements declared that hundreds of alleged Bangladeshis, who had been pushed out of Arunachal and Nagaland a few months ago, were in reality Indian citizens, something that should have left to the judiciary to determine. “So far as our government is concerned,” said Tsering Gyurme, parliamentary secretary and principal adviser to Arunachal Pradesh CM Dorjee Khandu, ”the inner line permit does not allow even Indians to settle in our state. So there is no question of outsiders. We even insist on Arunachalis travelling out of the state to carry identity papers.” There is an increase in the number of illegal Bangladeshis now working in Itanagar. And what of the fact that the Tarun Gogoi government had declared that the suspected illegals pushed out of Arunachal were Indians? “That’s Gogoi’s problem,” Gyurme told TSI. All Bangladeshis who were working in Arunachal Pradesh had been identified and “could be shunted out anytime”, he added. “This is not like Assam where people can come in anytime, settle and get permanent resident certificates.”

The All Nyishi Students’ Union (ANSU) had served a quit notice on alleged Bangladeshis in September this year. The students then physically removed a number of alleged illegals, which led to the All Minority Students’ Union in Assam blocking National Highway. While Arunachal home minister Jarbor Gamlin had at that stage said that there were around 8,000 illegal Bangladeshis in Arunachal, the state unit of the Congress had come out in support of the movement by Arunachali students. “We support any move to free the state of migrants,” Nabam Tuki, president of the state unit of the Congress had said at that point. Support for the innerline permit meanwhile only grows. He blamed the Border Security Force for letting in Bangladeshis. “No one goes from Assam to bring Bangladeshis into Assam,” he said, “the paramilitary forces simply let them in.”

And just how far are these governments willing to go to protect the rights of it heir people? One indicator would perhaps suffice: asked about the 1974 Indira-Mujib Pact, which has turned out to be a major impediment in so far as repatriation of Bangladeshi illegals from India is concerned, and which groups such as the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) in Assam demand that the government renegotiate with Bangladesh, Lyngdoh was clear of his government’s stand: “Our state laws do not permit even Indian citizens to buy land in our district councils. So the Indira-Mujib Pact will not work here,” he said....Continue

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About the ‘buzz’

When a mosquito buzzes around you, something quite fascinating is happening. When any insect flaps its wings, the air above the wings swirls around and creates a pocket of moving air above the wing which has less pressure than the air below, lifting the insect upward. These little whirlpools are known as leading-edge vortices. Birds are able to fly the same way.....Continue

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Can more than one Superpower work together for a better world?

This friction got heated up after Russia deployed its strategic bomber over the Caribbean and participated in joint naval exercises with Venezuela. The tasks took place immediately after the US aid delivery reached Georgia, post war. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stated (September 11, 2008) that these moves point towards "a multi-polar world". He said, "The Yankee hegemony is finished." Since the activities are happening in US-influenced regions, the next wave of cold war might spread to the Middle East. This hypothesis is evident from Syrian President Bashar Assad's statement (with reference to US-Russian confrontation) that appeared in Middle East Times on October 13, 2008, “Flames from one part of the world spreads to other regions and the fire becomes twice as strong.” It requires no rocket science to comprehend that Middle East would never want to get crushed between Russia and the US.

Leaving all this geo-politics at bay, it’s beyond doubt that world powers (and emerging powers) have wasted a lot of time in keeping the war hot. These powers could have easily solved many global conflicts to an extent, if not entirely....Continue

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State HC orders unusual step to record victim's version

"How can the courts be helpless in recording evidence of a deaf and dumb person when a number of sign language experts are available to help to communicate?" Justice Ranjit Singh wondered while holding that evidence of prosecutrix (victim) recorded in this manner would be permissible under law.

No wonder, Sundari was enabled to depose due to judicial intervention which made this mode of deposition permissible under law, a development that can impact such cases in future. Inquiries indicate that the victim gave a graphic description of the incident with the help of sign language experts but against her will. However, the sign language could not go farther to provide details of the accused. But encouraged by historic HC orders about legal validity of the use of sign language and the interpretation flowing from it, Sundari was not far from recognising the accused. The trial court did not appreciate the sensitivity of the issue but the HC lent a voice to the victim to rescue her in time....Continue

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Reversed: Diversity in unity!

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‘Pride’ goes regional. First it was Gujarati Pride, then Maharashtrian Pride and now finally, Bihari Pride. ‘Pride’, the synonym of ‘identity politics’ rains votes, a realisation to which Bihari politicians had recently woken up. Not long ago, it was a cardinal sin to discuss ‘unity’ with Bihari politicians. But the landscape has changed after Bihari students trying to take a railways test in Mumbai were battered by Raj Thakreys goons. Now they all stand together. What a sight: Rashtriya Janata Party supreme Lalu Prasad, Janata Dal (U) top gun Nitish Kumar and Lok Janshakti Party leader Ram Vilas Paswan addressing the same press conference and speaking the same language!

But the dream did not last. The bubble burst when Chief Minister decide to go one up and sent word to all his five Members of Parliament to resign on the issue of Biharis’ being harassed in Maharashtra. And they did. Their resignations were accepted by Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee on November 11. An enraged Lalu Prasad has challenged that if JD (U ) is at all serious about Bihari pride, they should ask even their MLAs and Council members to resign!...Continue

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MICHAEL WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR THE ANSWER

If one thinks about icons that led to the evolution of the IT industry, two prominent names that immediately flash into mind are Bill Gates and Michael Dell. They both started their entrepreneurial ventures at the early age of 19, both were academic drop outs and both managed to create mammoth wealth for themselves and their compaies.

Guess their string of similarities ends at that though. While Gates, who is the software giant known for his ‘soft’ heart (philanthropy work) and his graceful exit from the day to day working of Microsoft this year, Michael Dell, who ruled the hardware industry for more than a decade, is known for his tough talking and ‘hard-core’ managerial skills, as well as his need to retain an iron fist over the company he created. Michael is currently pegged at just $16.4 billion in net worth (Forbes, March 2008) as compared to Bill Gates at $60 billion. We proceed to analyse the ‘Dell’ road and why, despite being an exceptional genius in his own right, Michael could take some notes from the Microsoft man....Continue

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Invest in e-bonds!

With e-marriages you now get to choose your guy or gal just as you’d choose some gadget... list out the specifications you need, click and you get what you want!

Jerome P. Crabb had once said, “Getting married is like permanently grafting your hand to the cookie jar. No matter how sweet those cookies may taste, you can’t help but wonder what would have happened if you’d chosen some other dessert – brownies, for instance, or frozen yogurt, or maybe chocolate strudel.” And while some keep wondering about their choice, there are a lot more who get their hands into the cookie jar without even knowing whether they are interested in the sweets. For them convenience matters more than the end choice that they make, a choice that leads to marriag–that calls for life-long commitment. Marriages, till date are quite a family affair. So, while the debate on arranged marriage vs love marriage is still going strong, and will probably go on forever, the latest craze happens to be self-arranged: e-marriages.

For laggards, self-arranged e-marriages are about the ‘wannabe’ brides and grooms, who log onto web portals where they shortlist a match for themselves based on criterion like religion, caste, personality traits, pay packages, family details and photographs. With more and more marriage portals like Shaadi.com and Bharatmatrimony.com, e-marriages are in vogue and have given a new meaning to the concept of arranged marriage.....Continue

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