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Inheritance of loss
16 March 2013 12:00 AMThe struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.’ These immortal words from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by...
Requiem for a Latam dream
11 March 2013 11:13 PMLike Alo Presidente, the television programme in which the late Hugo Chavez discussed his government’s policies and heard from the public, often...
Rewriting Macaulay
16 Feb 2013 12:00 AMWho could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia [?].’ In the universal...
50 shades of Vivekananda
16 Feb 2013 12:00 AMWas the blue-eyed boy of global Hinduism a saint or a sinner? Was he, as believed by most practicing Hindus, a great social reformer, who had...
Rape in the Name of Nation
7 Feb 2013 10:53 PMIt’s a truth universally acknowledged that a powerful State in possession of a massive military must be in search of conflict zones. Otherwise, the...
When Mayhem is the message
4 Feb 2013 11:45 PMExactly when those of us who attended the just-concluded Jaipur Literature Festival were heaving a sigh of relief, and were, in fact, celebrating the...
Why aaron Swartz had to die?
28 Jan 2013 10:57 PM‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that...
When writers attack other writers
15 Jan 2013 11:44 PMControversies in the literary world always gladden me and the past year had doled out quite a handful of them as a way to remind us that our writers,...
The rise and rise of Hugo Chavez
11 Jan 2013 10:37 PMWhen an ailing, cancer-strickenHugo Chavez, the 58-year-old Venezuelan presidential incumbent, was returned to power by the South American country’s...
Why offence is not the best defence
20 Dec 2012 10:43 PMThis is a very bad case of déjà vu. It’s all the more horrible because an entire country seems to have accepted gun massacres as mundane and routine...
Bachchans see what Modi shows
15 Dec 2012 11:35 PMMultiple political affiliations don’t bog the Bachchans down. The First Family of Bollywood is pleased to serve opposing political camps and still...
Thackeray’s funeral poses questions
30 Nov 2012 11:25 PMThe month of November 2012 will go down in history as one which holds up a mirror to how India, the so-called secular democratic republic, responds as...