Rajiv Shah

1 month ago | counterview.net | Rajiv Shah

Toxics Link, an Indian environmental research and advocacy organisation, in collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund, a global non-profit headquartered in New York, has raised the alarm that Sabarmati is one of five rivers across India found to contain unacceptable levels of nonylphenol (NP), a chemical linked to "exposure to carcinogenic outcomes, including prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women." While noting that high NP levels were also found in the Cooum and Adyar...

1 month ago | counterview.net | Rajiv Shah

When Kumar — who is said to have been the main mind behind Prof Yashpal's seminal report "Learning Without Burden" — mentioned Gijubhai, I vaguely recalled my father, Jagubhai Shah, also referring to him as a great Gandhian educationist. As often happens in youth, I didn’t pay much attention to what my father said about him.

1 month ago | counterview.net | Rajiv Shah

As the now-defunct, pro-Soviet, semi-left representative of the daily Patriot and Link Newsweekly in Moscow, I had the chance to interact with foreign correspondents at Moscow's Press Centre of the Soviet Foreign Affairs Ministry. One of them was Shah Nawaz, who represented the Pakistani daily The Muslim, which collapsed in the late 1990s. Shah, as I used to call him, had married a Russian girl, had two lovely children, and had settled in Moscow.

1 month ago | openforum.com.au | Rajiv Shah

Once upon a time, not so long ago, those who talked of Australian sovereign capability, especially in the technology sector, were generally considered an amusing group of eccentrics. After all, technology ecosystems are global and multinational companies lead the development of cutting-edge capabilities. Australia could just sit back and benefit of technology from elsewhere. However, the last few years have jolted us out of that comfortable view.

1 month ago | counterview.net | Rajiv Shah

India's businesses, I thought aloud, would see it as an opportunity to expand their wings across South Asia and beyond once India wins the battle, which seems likely, given Pakistan's relatively weak defenses. However, here was a researcher from a real estate consulting firm sowing doubts over the Indo-Pak war's impact on a sector that it claims is expanding faster than all others.