The only equitable way to manage the Nile Basin and its water resources is for all countries along its banks to make fair share agreements. But it isn’t likely to happen.

Indian newspapers are sold at cheaper than cost, subsidised by ad revenue, and have enormous circulations; the most successful titles and the newer media are mostly owned by a few mega-groups as an instrument of policy. And journalism is open only to a tiny, mostly English-speaking elite.

Postcolonial theory presents itself not just as a criticism of the radical Enlightenment tradition, but its replacement. But some key concepts its theorists reject are legitimate, and essential for progressive politics; they have recently re-emerged in global organisation against austerity.