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A list of links to all my non-tech writings: Essays Glanglish   - with audio versions  -  new post Travel writings Moody's Black Noteboo...

Once again, many people are under lockdown.  Once again, travel is hard, or impossible.  During the first lockdown, I published my black not...

Just as  A Partial India  was a re-working of  my   travel   notebook  for India, so  Walks with Lorenzetti  re-visits  a 1988 trip I made ...

In October and November 1986, I went to India for the first time.  It was an important experience,  which I tried to capture as it happened...

Here on Techdirt we've written a number of times about India's efforts to provide key drugs to its population at prices that the...

Like many other countries, India has been steadily extending its national surveillance capabilities. We wrote about its main Central Moni...

Techdirt has been reporting for a while on India's growing success in providing its population with access to low-cost generic drug...

Techdirt has run several stories about the difficulties students in emerging economies have when it comes to buying expensive study ma...

One of the many benefits of Edward Snowden's leaks about NSA spying is that it is flushing out similar activity around the world. Ti...

There's a worrying trend around the world for governments to extend online surveillance capabilities to encompass all citizens -- of...

A few weeks back, we wrote about the Indian Supreme Court's rejection of Novartis's attempt to use " evergreening " to...

Techdirt has been covering the free trade agreement being negotiated between India and the EU for a while now -- that is, as well as any...

One of the many problems with the secretive nature of trade agreements is that it insulates negotiators from the real-world consequences...

Back in October last year, we wrote about Costa Rican students taking to the streets to defend their right to photocopy otherwise unaff...

Back in October last year, in the context of India showing itself increasingly sceptical about  pharma patents  that drive up drug prices...

Techdirt has been pointing out for years that more patents is not the same thing as more innovation, even though many around the world w...

Techdirt has been tracking for some time the worrying moves in India that have involved censoring the Twitter accounts of journalists and...

Back in March last year, the Indian government announced that it was granting its first compulsory license , for the anti-cancer drug mar...

As Techdirt has reported over the last year, the Indian government is becoming increasingly keen on using cheaper, generic versions of i...

It's fairly widely accepted that the key digital device in the future will be the mobile phone, not the desktop computer that has had...