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| In violent slow motion |
| As an awful sort of nationalism, Zionism is not unique |
| The Gaza massacre is a cautionary tale: it demonstrates in violent slow motion the trajectory of majoritarian nationalism. Israel is a democratic state: it has vigorously contested elections, a judiciary willing to disagree on occasion with the execu... |
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| Chatter all the time |
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Sir — Sunanda K. Datta-Ray forcefully drives home the point that no amount of ‘hot talk’ and rhetor ... |
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| War not whine |
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Sir — The military attacks started by Israeli forces on Gaza last December are reprehensible (“Rule ... |
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| TALKING TOUGH |
| When the going gets tough, the tough get talking, and talking tough. Since the Mumbai terror attacks in November, India has d...|
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| DEEP CONCERN |
| Israel and Palestine may have pushed the semantic possibilities of the word, ‘ceasefire’, to the limits, but it seems that th...|
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| Secrets behind happiness |
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Surveys are big in China, as are all things American. There’s even a strange survey on “happiness”. For example, Hangzhou — o... | Read.. |
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| The land that time forgot |
| Conversation in the remittance economy is an invitation to voice a hundred insecurities, real and imagined. For a society that once served up Carlos Castaneda in local magazin... |
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I haven’t been to sleep for over a year. That’s why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn’t sleep.
— EVELYN WAUGH
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