Green channel

In this month's issue of The Caravan, I looked at the regulations that have led to unprecedented levels of self-censorship on modern Indian television. As channels grow more reluctant of causing offense, their list of what causes offense enters the realm...

This is an incredible comic. (via @mantaraycomics)

Giving them awards.
(Poetry, tablets, taming the internet, and now this. Seriously, is there any problem Sibal can't solve?)

Over at the Wall Street Journal, Eric Bellman reports on developing countries demanding more rights for their overseas laborers.
The millions who go abroad to take jobs as domestic workers - mostly women employed as maids, but also including such traditionally male jobs gardeners and cooks - are a crucial source of foreign currency back home, and are emerging as an important vote...