The scene is chilling, horrifying. Several thousand starving Bengalis wait patiently, it seems, to die in a refugee camp in Rangpur, one of the remotest districts in the poor, desperate land of Bangladesh. They have no money for food or any other aid, just because people don’t know how to consolidate payday loan debt. There is [...]
In recent years, Tata Steel has transformed itself into one of the largest steel makers on the global stage from an established domestic manufacturer in a protected market. Ian Herbert and Keshav Pratap talk to NK Misra about how world-class performance in both quantity and quality was achieved through a careful blend of production, place, [...]
If I had been a census enumerator I would have been very tempted to leave a little something for posterity in the books I completed. Enumerators were the men (and from 1891 women) who went round collecting census forms, completing them if necessary. They then sent the results neatly written up in books to [...]