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| The absent celebrant |
| How did Gandhi spend August 15, 1947? |
| It is well known that when India became free on the August 15, 1947, Mahatma Gandhi declined to join the festivities in New ... |
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| Judgment day |
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Sir — The law minister, M. Veerappa Moily, and the Chief Justice of India, K.G. Balakrishnan, are k ... |
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| Deadly sting |
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Sir — Every year, residents of Calcutta and its adjoining areas suffer from malaria, dengue and chi ... |
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| Parting shot |
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Sir — As Arabinda Ray points out, the British were more successful in keeping India together than m ... |
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| NAMES AFTER LEADERS |
| Take the example of Rajiv Gandhi. He became India’s prime minister much against his and his family’s wishes under tragic circ...|
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| Fear, fun and fantasy |
| Elusiveness and ambiguity are the hallmarks of the works of both Kartick Chandra Pyne (born 1931) and Partha Pratim Deb (born 1943), who had for a long time not received any r... |
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In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. In the nineteenth century inhumanity meant cruelty; in the twentieth century it means schizoid self-alienation. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots — ERICH FROMM
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