When Piketty came to India
Thomas Piketty, the French economist and author of the famous book Capital in the Twenty First Century, was recently in India. He delivered a lecture on the state of inequality globally as well as in India.
French President Emmanuel Macron has called on young people to remember past wars and use democratic means to fight against on Saturday's barbarities during a commemoration at the site of the deadliest massacre in Nazi-occupied France.
Macron told 500 children, aged 12 to 16, on Saturday in Oradour-sur-Glane in western France that "we would like to be able to say that from now on this happens away from home or that it no longer happens. But Rwanda or Yugoslavia yesterday, Syria today. They are only a few hours by plane."
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On June 10, 1944, an SS armored division herded villagers into barns and a church, and set them ablaze, killing 642 people. Only six survived.
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Macron slowly walked in the ruins, which are preserved as a testimony to Nazi horrors.
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