The business community, government, civic agencies and the judiciary should all overhaul their systems to ensure that the Bhopal gas leak was the last blunder of its kind, says Kiran Karnik

MUCH has been written and spoken following the recent court judgement in the case related to the Bhopal gas tragedy. For over a week, it was the flavour of the day or TV channels and in the print media.

"GOD is dead", had asserted Nietzsche, proclaiming the arrival of the age of rationality. It is true that for most people, "God" is the antidote to the fear of the unknown, a concept that

AT A time when Western societies were still in a primitive state of development, the Indus valley civilisation had evolved sophisticated systems for drainage, water supply and urban planning.

NEVER in recent history has the world witnessed political and strategic changes as dramatic as those seen between 1986 and 1991. In this short span, a once proud and mighty superpower has not only

IF ONE were to pick a single product to represent the tremendous technological progress in the second half of this century, it would certainly be the computer. In few fields has progress been so