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More iPhone blues… Where’s my Nikon DSLR?

Posted on 13 January 202313 January 2023 by ilagardien

As I start turning my attention to Istanbul, I recall some of the pictures I made in that great city and how I wish I had used a my Nikon DSLR. There is no comparison. The first picture was was made at breakfast – from inside of the Turkish Kitchen – and the second later…

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Istanbul: Slices of the City

Posted on 12 January 202312 January 2023 by ilagardien

This city captured my imagination several years ago. I have returned often, the last time being the 2019 Istanbul Biennale, The Seventh Continent. I put together some photographs of Galata Bridge and the colours and flavours of this great city. There is so much more to this city, which I hope to explore in greater…

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A New Year and Enduring Passions

Posted on 2 January 20232 January 2023 by ilagardien

Well, it’s yet another year, and in some ways nothing much has changed. There are, still, many books to read, and many more stories to tell. What was it that the young Tancredi Falconeri said? I look forward mostly to starting a new writing project, perhaps more than one, and writing my regular columns and…

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On the streets of Istanbul

Posted on 12 August 202023 December 2021 by ilagardien

Below is set of pictures I took in Istanbul in 2012. The main picture of the two women is haunting. It shows turns the gaze back on the photographer.

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Bread Sellers on the Streets of Istanbul

Posted on 19 December 20122 January 2023 by ilagardien

18 December 2012 – Among the “salt and pepper” of Istanbul are tradespeople on foot and ubiquitous street food vendors who are indispensable to this great city. From the city’s window basket system, which grew in popularity during the Covid Pandemic, to the street food sellers, the people of the city meet and interact through…

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  • “Succession” and the end of the illusion of ethical capitalism
     What “Succession” serves us is the end of the illusion of ethical capitalism. The issues are the same as they appeared in the beginnings of the commercial society, and were discussed by Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith. The question was the following: can the unchecked use of what are conventionally considered vices, namely passions for […]
  • Capitalism unchained
     Krishnan Nayar makes three key points in his recently published Liberal Capitalist Democracy: The God that Failed. First, he argues that bourgeois revolutions frequently failed to lead to democracy, a view strongly embedded in the Anglo-American Whiggish history and in simplified Marxism. Rather they provoked aristocratic reaction and the authoritarian economic developments which in many […]
  • The chronicle of the revolutions foretold?
     For almost two decades, Peter Turchin has been involved, with many colleagues and co-authors, in an epochal project: to figure out, using quantifiable evidence, what are the forces that lead to the rise, and more importantly, to the decline of nations, political turbulence and decay, and revolutions. This has resulted in the creation of an […]
  • On charisma and greyness under communism
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  • Capitalists, the state and globalization
                 “The tendency to create the world market is directly given in a concept of capital itself. Every limit appears as a barrier to be overcome…In accord with this tendency, capital drives beyond national barriers and prejudices as much as beyond nature worship, as well as all traditional, confined, complacent…reproductions of old ways […]

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RSS Business Times

  • For unlimited leave policies to work in Singapore, culture and managers matter: HR analysts
    THE impact of an unlimited leave policy depends on the company’s work culture and individual managers, particularly as Singapore’s employees tend to underutilise leave, said human resources (HR) practitioners.
  • Decade at the helm: Insead’s longest-serving dean on why businesses must be a force for good
    AFTER ten years at the helm of one of the world’s most famous graduate business schools, Ilian Mihov can be reasonably pleased with the report card he will soon leave behind at Insead.
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    SINGAPORE and Australia will set aside A$20 million (S$17.8 million) for a new programme to drive co-innovation between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from both countries for green products and services.
  • CAG reverses losses to achieve net profit of S$33 million for FY2023
    CHANGI Airport Group (CAG) posted a net profit of S$33 million for the financial year ended Mar 31, 2023 – reversing its S$838 million loss in the previous financial year – on the back of a recovering aviation industry after borders reopened.
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Anti-G8 and Anti-War Graffiti in Geneva 2003

Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003
Anti-war paint. Geneva 2003

Bastakiya, Dubai 2012

Workers. Heads bowed down in the heat

Verona

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