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Why the world loves Malala
Malala Yousufzai is a child wonder, more life re-affirming than any folk tale you have heard recently.
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India’s iconophilia
Great historical figures can become just their images. What they wrote, thought, stood for, can become immaterial.
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The war in Sri Lanka is not over
The ethnic Tamil population has been permanently marked as ‘terrorist’.
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It feels like 1989
Nations who do not learn from history are destined to make a fool of themselves.
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Fooling the Hindu votebank
The BJP told us the Congress only fools Muslims. As a Hindu, I think that is how I feel about the BJP today.
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Eastern hypocrisy
I love how we pretend we are puppets and America makes our hands move in whatever direction it likes.
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Who paralysed India’s growth?
If the free-market wallahs want economic growth, they should stop giving intellectual cover to crony capitalism.
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Reading Tagore on August 15
Tagore’s complex relation with nationalism is on supporting anti-colonial movement but opposing nationalism by itself.
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Manmohan Singh must visit Pakistan
No matter how much cross-border violence we see Nankana Sahib will remain in Pakistan and Ajmer Sharif in India.
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The case against election forecasting
Is it really the job of the media to tell us who will win? Are journalists astrologers?