Interview with Syed Haider Farooq Maudoodi (Part 1)
Syed is the son of the founder of Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami

Interview with Syed Haider Farooq Maudoodi (Part 2)
On the ulama and politics

Globalization and Public Health
A discussion of the economic aspects.

Interesting Organisation Theory
Not an oxymoron!

Elsewhere ....

"You Are What You Eat"/"Fast Foods R Us"
Fast Food Nation I (Book Review from Salon)

Fast Food Nation II (New York Times Book Review)

Fast Food Nation III (Review plus a lengthy excerpt

Commodification of the American University
Conflicts of Interest on Campus

Jurgen Habermas
Interesting piece on the prominent German intellectual

Bruno Manser
Swiss Eccentric or Romantic Environmentalist?

Singapore: All Good, No Bad
"All for the best in the best of all possible worlds"

Arundhati Roy
Interview with the postmodernist Booker Prize-winning author

U.S. Hegemony and the World Bank: What Happened to Joseph Stiglitz and Ravi Kanbur
He who pays the piper calls the tune (Adobe Acrobat file)

Chuckles

Bizspeak
It makes Academic Jargon sound like music to the ears!

Think Positive!
"Everyday in everyway, the world is getting better and better"

Singapore-style social satire
WARNING: R-rated satire. Some e-THOUGHT readers may find this site "aesthetically-challenged"!