An Indian boy has died after being attacked by a gang in a row over kite-flying from the rooftops of Delhi.

As the policy direction of the State reinforces a ruinous societal gap between the rich and the poor, will the Government change tack, asks Dr Colm O’Doherty

IN a recent Irish Examiner, Rajan Raghuram asked the question “Why did economists not foresee the economic crisis?” At the end of his wandering article he cites, “specialisation”, “the difficulties of forecasting” and “the disengagement of much of the profession from the real world”, as the three factors explaining collective failure.