The year just past proved perilous and chaotic, a year in which many of the risks foreshadowed in our last Clock statement came into full relief. In 2017, we saw reckless language in the nuclear realm heat up already dangerous situations and re-learned that minimizing evidence-based assessments regarding climate and other global challenges does not lead to better public policies.
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2019
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Chander Mehra, 85, is a former editor-columnist-author. Hospitalized for eight years, he has worked in senior positions in India and Africa . He has survived through trying times during the regimes of African tyrants as well as during the Emergency in India. In Kenya, he was detained without trial thrice because his commentaries in The Statesman India were inimical to the dictator. Even today, he is a “Prohibited Immigrant”. The manuscript of his book, Good Governance: The Great Debate, and several papers were and are lost forever. In India, during the Emergency, he was briefly detained for editing the manuscript of Jayaprakash Narayan’s TOTAL REVOLUTION. Chander Mehra’s published books include: two novels, Jihad Rediscovered, banned by some Islamic states, and Soldiers of Allah (Amazon, 2013), written in-between episodes of cardiac arrest.