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Por William R. Polk, miembro del Consejo de Planificación Política del Departamento de Estado en la presidencia de John F. Kennedy © William R. Polk. Traducción: Juan Gabriel López Guix (LA VANGUARDIA, 09/12/07):
India es hoy una ilustración perfecta del famoso verso de El viejo marinero de Samuel Coleridge: “Agua, agua, en todas partes, ni una gota que beber”. En la zona oriental, unos 20 millones de personas han perdido sus hogares en inundaciones causadas por las torrenciales lluvias monzónicas, mientras que en la región occidental no ha llovido en los últimos tres años. En medio, en la capital, … Seguir leyendo
Por William R. Polk, miembro del Consejo de Planificación Política del Departamento de Estado en la presidencia de John F. Kennedy (LA VANGUARDIA, 02/12/07):
A pesar del énfasis de Gandhi en la no violencia, India es uno de los países más violentos del planeta. La prensa diaria está llena de ataques a comisarías, asesinatos de figuras políticas y un flujo constante de violencia más personal. Un ejemplo típico fue el titular de The Sunday Times indio del 28 de octubre pasado: “Hijo de ex primer ministro estatal asesinado por maoístas”.
Tras esa breve noticia se encuentra una larga tradición … Seguir leyendo
Por William R. Polk, miembro del Consejo de Planificación Política del Departamento de Estado en la presidencia de John F. Kennedy © William R. Polk. Traducción: Juan Gabriel López Guix (LA VANGUARDIA, 25/11/07):
Con un crecimiento anual del 9 por ciento, sólo China supera a India en el éxito de su desarrollo económico. Ante semejante dinamismo del crecimiento, ¿cómo puede alguien quejarse? La pregunta ha sido formulada hace poco por Patwant Singh, destacado crítico social indio. Su nuevo libro, titulado The second partition,habla de la creciente brecha entre ricos y pobres. ¿Cómo podrá mantener India su gobierno representativo, pregunta … Seguir leyendo
Por José Félix Merladet (EL CORREO DIGITAL, 12/11/07):
Este año se han cumplido seis décadas de la independencia de India. Es un buen momento para reflexionar sobre la evolución de este complejo y fascinante país hasta su sorprendente crecimiento actual. ¿Como será el mundo dentro de otros 60 años? Si nos fiamos de las últimas cifras de crecimiento y sus proyecciones, será un mundo con el centro de gravedad desplazado hacia Asia, donde China e India, con más de 1.000 millones de habitantes cada una, jugarán un rol fundamental. Pero, ¿cuál de estos dos rivales históricos tendrá el papel protagonista?… Seguir leyendo
By David S. Broder (THE WASHINGTON POST, 08/11/07):
To gauge the impact here of the turmoil next door in Pakistan, Americans would have to imagine their own reaction to a military coup or the imposition of martial law in Canada.
The reaction here when Pakistan’s strongman, President Pervez Musharraf, declared a national emergency, cracked down on the political opposition, arrested members of the Supreme Court and suspended the constitution was one of shock.
The border was immediately closed, and military forces were placed on alert. India and Pakistan have fought repeated wars over the years, and suspicions … Seguir leyendo
Por Josep Piqué, economista y ex ministro (LA VANGUARDIA, 21/09/07):
Mencionar hoy la importancia de China en el escenario estratégico, político, económico y de seguridad colectiva en el presente siglo constituye un tópico que nadie pone en duda. Siempre se habló de la relevancia de la frase “cuando China despierte”. Los años de comunismo maoísta construyeron una potencia militar nuclear y – así lo vio con claridad lúcida un reivindicable presidente Nixon en su política exterior- un evidente contrapeso a la entonces Unión Soviética. Nada nuevo bajo el sol. China y Rusia siempre fijaron sus posiciones como dos imperios … Seguir leyendo
By Pankaj Mishra, the author of Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Beyond (THE GUARDIAN, 14/09/07):
‘I am quite satisfied with my views on India,” Winston Churchill declared in 1930, “and I don’t want them disturbed by any bloody Indians.” A few weeks ago David Miliband, the foreign secretary, provided a measure of just how far Britain and India have travelled from hidebound imperialism of the Churchillian kind. With their growing economies and increasingly assertive elites, Asian countries such as India and China press upon the west as never before, and Miliband … Seguir leyendo
By Chitrita Banerji, the author, most recently, of “Eating India: An Odyssey Into the Food and Culture of the Land of Spices” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 05/09/07):
One morning in January 1997, I walked into my office at a nonprofit group here after a visit to my hometown, Calcutta. A very senior colleague, whom I would have, until then, characterized as being the “sensitive” sort, greeted me: “Welcome back. And how is everyone in Calcutta — still starving and being looked after by Mother Teresa?”
At first I thought this might be a bad attempt at humor, but I … Seguir leyendo
Por Pascual Segura, director del Centre de Patents de la UB (LA VANGUARDIA, 05/09/07):
“Un tribunal desestima la demanda de Novartis contra la ley de patentes india”, se titulaba un artículo de La Vanguardia del 7 de agosto. En la demanda se alegaba que la ley de patentes india no está en armonía con el acuerdo sobre los aspectos de los derechosde propiedad intelectual relacionados con el comercio (Adpic), y se puso tras el rechazo de una patente relativa al anticancerígeno Glivec de Novartis, patente que se ha concedido en casi 40 países. Las ONG se han felicitado por … Seguir leyendo
By Siddhartha Deb, a writer who lives in India and the US; his latest novel is Surface (THE GUARDIAN, 05/09/07):
A couple of years ago I visited Bhopal, the central Indian city where a toxic gas leak on the night of December 2 1984 killed at least 3,000 people within 24 hours. In the two decades since the disaster, the death toll reached at least 20,000, while another 100,000 people were estimated by Amnesty International to be suffering from “chronic and debilitating illnesses” caused by the lethal methyl isocyanate gas. The leak had come from a pesticide factory run … Seguir leyendo
By Bronwen Maddox (THE TIMES, 22/08/07):
The storm over India’s new nuclear pact with the US, which now threatens to bring down the Indian Government, illustrates the only good thing about the deal – it is an antidote to anti-Western reflexes in the country that still run deep.
Other than that, the deal is a worry, for all the reasons that the US Congress has asserted: it is an extravagant breach of the spirit of non-proliferation treaties, showering the benefits of US nuclear help on India even though it acquired nuclear weapons.
But the row is a reminder that Indian … Seguir leyendo
By Jim Hoagland (THE WASHINGTON POST, 19/08/07):
India celebrated its 60th birthday last week with a raucous parliamentary debate over nuclear energy and its new strategic relationship with the United States. New Delhi had the air of the capital of an emerging world power looking ahead into a promising, if complicated, future.
Pakistan marked the same occasion by sinking deeper into the past. The corrupt backroom dealing between military rulers and politicians that has produced a cycle of disasters for the Pakistani nation resumed — aided by the hidden hand of U.S. diplomacy working to preserve President Pervez Musharraf‘s … Seguir leyendo
By Bronwen Maddox (THE TIMES, 16/08/07):
The crisis now rocking Pakistan springs directly from the disaster of Partition 60 years ago. The cards that it scooped up, in the rush to carve out a separate Muslim state, were not just inferior to India’s; they were inadequate to build any kind of stable nation.
In this week’s commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the independence of India and Pakistan from British rule, Pakistan’s desperate struggles have often been treated merely as a foil with which better to display the shining performance of its giant neighbour. India, revelling in its status as … Seguir leyendo
By Shashi Tharoor, the author of Nehru: The Invention of India, and former under secretary general of the United Nations (THE GUARDIAN, 15/08/07):
When India celebrated the 49th anniversary of its independence from British rule in 1996, its then prime minister, HD Deve Gowda, stood at the ramparts of Delhi’s Red Fort and delivered the traditional independence day address to the nation. Eight other prime ministers had done exactly the same thing 48 times before him, but what was unusual this time was that Deve Gowda, a southerner from the state of Karnataka, spoke to the country in a … Seguir leyendo
By Ramachandra Guha, the author of “India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy” (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 15/08/07):
In the last months of 1990, a property dispute sparked a series of bloody riots across India. The right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party sought to “reclaim” for Hindus the birthplace of the legendary god-king Ram, in the small northern town of Ayodhya. That meant demolishing the mosque that had been built there in the 16th century and replacing it with a spanking new temple.
Starting in September, the militant Bharatiya Janata leader Lal Krishna Advani journeyed for five weeks … Seguir leyendo