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Sashi Kumar
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Threats to Constitution
THE anticlimax would be hilarious if it was not preposterous. The rabble, which goes by the name of Karni Sena, withdrew its agitation against
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The freedom and the right
IN 18th century England, the book would have invited dire punitive action under the
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Perceptions and verdicts
AS 2017 comes to a close in political disarray, there are signals that bode an interesting, more competitive, year ahead. The elections in Gujarat con
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The fiction of nonfiction
IN his Charles Eliot Norton lectures delivered in the early 1990s at Harvard University, subsequently compiled as
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Wah Taj!
FIRST it was operation appropriation. With abstruse, contrived and convoluted reasoning, citing examples that varied from the ridiculous to the fantas
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Where is the mind without fear?
These eleven inspiring lines of Tagore, conjuring a freshly minted idea of a free India, are of course utopian and aspirational, as the best of poetry
Unmediated
Mahabali in the time of Baahubali
LONG, long ago, when the sky stretched to meet the earth on the distant horizon so that the gods could step down from their clouds on to terra firma a
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Deja vu in Colombo
WELL over 30 years later the glare of the July mid-morning sun on the Galle sea face in Colombo was as unchangingly harsh. The blare of the traffic al
On the scam trail
WHEN John Maynard Keynes, in the context of the crisis of the Great Depression of the 1930s, suggested that the government should actually pay people
Arnab’s Republic
THE launch of a missile and the launch of a TV news channel were entirely different things until now. Until, that is, the supremos of the Democratic P
No news is bad news
SOME adages turn on themselves. Or maybe that should read, adages sometimes turn on themselves. The one we see doing this with such frequency nowadays
The sting and the stung
IT was a sting all right. A sting that exposed a devious conspiracy by a new Malayalam TV news channel to ensnare a Minister. This is how the conspira
Born to blush unseen
There was a shortlist of 10 Malayalam films made in 2016 before the three members of the jury for the John Abraham award this year. As a jury member I
Post-Trump press-pective
WHEN the most powerful person in the world, before and after he became that, has been making a series of atrocious comments and charges, many of them
New Age gurudom
It is one hell of a spiritual sell.
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The tyranny of populism
THOMAS PAINE in his
Anecdotal recaps
IT may be both stretching a metaphor and mixing metaphors, but one is nevertheless tempted to vest the cyclone Vardah, which lashed coastal Tamil Nadu
Nationalism cannot be a TV season
ARTHUR MILLER characterised a good newspaper as a nation talking to itself. That was in the early 1960s. It was easier and less complicated then to re
When rumour has it
THE German philosopher Gotthold Lessing, who was a precursor of existentialism, had observed: “If God set forth before me the Eternal, unchangeable Tr
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