Amartya Sen on Democracy, the Left and America

"This reading that the plague that haunts the world today is American imperialism has a grain of truth in it, but that grain of truth is underneath a ton of other things. How can you emphasise that and forget everything else—forget the international threat of terrorism, of creeping fundamentalism across the world, not see the problems of dictatorial continuation, whether in Sudan or in our neighbourhood, Burma, or that democracy has not made much progress in recent years; not see our domestic problems like hunger and undernourishment, on which the Left is the natural party to protest loud and clear?"
- Amartya Sen

Bulla Ki Jaana

I never get tired of this song, Sufi lyrics, sung by Rabbi Shergill, a Sikh:

Mr. & Mrs Iyer: Don't Look Away

From one of my favorite movies of the last ten years, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, about two young strangers thrown together when their bus gets caught in the middle of religious riots: