TO PUBLISH OR NOT TO PUBLISH- the Editorial conundrum

• Main Author: Bharath Sriraman
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Norway; Indian; Tromsø; Bombay
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.595.4091; http://www.math.umt.edu/TMME/vol6no1and2/TMME_vol6nos1and2_article0Editorial_pp.1_2.pdf

This editorial began in my mind (a mental blog if you will) as I was making my way from Tromsø (Norway) to Montana late in December. As 2009 slowly rolls in, I am reminded of the 18th century Scottish bard Robert Burn’s famous poem “Auld Lang Syne ” for several reasons. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to mind? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o ' lang syne? This poem, typically sung on New Year’s eve, has served as the backdrop for many important events all over the world. Most recently it was played when the Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf stepped down as the Army Chief, signaling a transition to an era of civilian government in Pakistan. The heinous terrorist incidents that followed in Mumbai (Bombay), which partly can be attributed to the turmoil caused by the artificial borders carved by the British Raj in the wake of their departure from the Indian subcontinent, served as a reminder to the tenuous nature of “change”. Yet we are hopeful that things are changing in a positive direction in spite of the mess caused by post colonial geopolitics. After all politics and radicalism need not be