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Infographic: Literacy in India
Upon tasking himself with creating an infographic on primary education in India, Akshan Ish found that while India’s literacy rate is steadily growing, and the country boasts of having one of the...
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Deja vu: The French Intervention in Mali
Children playing football in Mali (Photo via Wikimedia Commons) On January 11, 2013, French President François Hollande sent a military expedition to rescue Dioncounda Traoré’s government from the...
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Lifting the Curtain
This week marks the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the landmark decision by the US Supreme Court on the issue of abortion. Claire Beckenstein, a political consultant in Washington DC, looks at the...
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‘Iranian Mothers for Peace’ Alert the World on Sanctions and Shortage of...
“The right to health and access to medical treatment and medication is one of the fundamental human rights anywhere in the world. Please do not allow the killing of our sick children, beloved families,...
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A Mantle of Illusion – The Drone Program and President Obama
The drone program has considerably intensified under the Obama administration. As the American press and congress are only now waking up to this fact, the silent response from the White House shows...
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Iran: The Waiting Game
Iranian newspaper clip from 1968 reads: “A quarter of Iran’s Nuclear Energy scientists are women.” The photograph shows some female Iranian PhDs posing in front of Tehran’s research reactor.Photo...
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Open Economy, Sealed Fate
The author investigates whether the proposed reforms in India’s financial, energy and retail sectors really make a difference to the economy which many have said has ‘bottomed out’ this fiscal year....
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Pyongyang’s Quandary
The provocative rhetoric coming from North Korea could hide a faint sense of desperation. By Gulshan Roy, 3rd April, 2013 On Saturday 30th March, a statement released by the highest North Korean...
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Can India Deliver on its Clean Energy Promises?
The Editor of InPEC – Siddharth Singh – attended the Clean Energy Ministerial that took place in Delhi on the 17th and 18th April, 2013. The Prime Minister of India, while inaugurating the summit,...
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The Limits of the Oil Rent in Kuwait
In this essay Abdulaziz Al-Mossalem looks at the current state of oil rent in Kuwait. The IMF has revealed that Kuwait could be headed towards deficit spending by 2017 if things continue along their...
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An Attempt to Discover India – Chapter 1
InPEC presents to you the “Discovery of India” log of Karthik Radhakrishnan, an engineering graduate student from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as he travels through India. In...
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The Change in Egypt and its Impact on Business Opportunities
Editor’s Note: This piece was written originally to be published on the 17th of May, 2013. Two months have passed since, and Egypt has undergone a sea change since then. In spite of this, we hope that...
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Discovery of India – Chapter 2: Election Freebies, Women and the Mid Day Meal...
InPEC brings to you the “Discovery of India” log of Karthik Radhakrishnan, an engineering graduate student from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as he travels through India. This...
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The Merit Delusion – Caste and Affirmative Action in India
In this article, Satish Chandra questions the accepted definition of “merit” in the caste-based reservations debate in India. Editor’s note: SC/ST stands for Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes while...
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The Incidence of Babus Index
The author brings to you an index on the incidence of administrative civil servants in India. By Siddharth Singh, 5th August, 2013 Recently, a young Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer, Durga...
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A Mozambican Newspaper With a Difference
The author brings to light a Mozambican newspaper – named @Verdade - which does not follow traditional financial models, and has in turn become a “tool for change”. The name of the newspaper curiously...
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Jihad 2.0: How Social Media Supports Islamist Agendas in Syria
Based on primary information from forums, communiqués and social media activities, this article offers an insight into the online activity of political jihadists and shows how online platforms are...
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Kyrgyzstan: dangers from outside and inside threaten stability
Kyrgyzstan has recently experienced an upsurge in tensions around the issue of pollution in the Kumtor Gold Mine, which it has not known since the ethnic riots of June 2010. Oppositional nationalists...
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Egypt, the West and the Arab Spring
America’s refusal to condemn the military coup in Egypt has revealed the West’s true hopes for the ‘Arab Spring’ By Gulshan Roy, 11th September, 2013 “If there is a God, he will have a lot to answer...
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The Bahrain Predicament
This piece was originally written right after a car bomb explosion on July 18 in Riffa south of the capital Manama. The result of resisting the majority’s demands, the author brings into question...
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