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| Madness in the air |
| Notes on a nation at war with itself |
| A Manichaean vision has come to prevail about both Ayodhya and the Kashmir valley in the country that insists on seeing things as white or black. The moment any citizen stands up to comment on either issue, the general assumption is that he or she mu... |
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| Good show |
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Sir — The opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi was spectacular, but the headline ... |
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| SEAT BECKONS |
| India is having a very good run. The Sensex is on the ascendant; no violence occurred after the Ayodhya judgment; the Commonw...|
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| JOKES APART |
| Racist humour is usually obscene. And what one set of people finds funny is sometimes beyond the comprehension of another. So...|
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| Silent Greeting |
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The world may be excited about a Chinese dissident getting the Nobel Peace Prize but here, Liu Xiaobo’s name barely crops up.... | Read.. |
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| Does history matter? |
| Undergraduates who have wrestled with the question, what is a historical fact, have got a break. A very high... |
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| Scorched earth policy |
| The West Bengal state assembly elections are due next year, and given the political climate, it looks unlikely that the Left Front will come back to power. If so, curtains wil... |
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That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
— ALDOUS HUXLEY
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