ON A BALMY FEBRUARY NIGHT, aware that things were not going well, I did what I rarely do. I put in earplugs and switched on the television.
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Pankaj Mishra on Arundhati Roy: Hindu nationalists have many ways to silence writers
The governments of Egypt and Turkey are brazenly leading a multi-pronged assault on writers, artists and intellectuals.
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They can file a charge posthumously against Jawaharlal Nehru too: Arundhati Roy
My reaction to today’s court order directing the Delhi Police to file an FIR against me for waging war against the state: Perhaps they should posthumously file a charge against Jawaharlal Nehru too. Here is what he said about Kashmir: 1.
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Bigger than the Sum of his Imperfections
It is perhaps the fate of all great democratic statesmen that in the shadow of their achievement it is also possible to draw an indictment against them. This is true of Lincoln and Roosevelt, as it is of Nehru.
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The economics of discrimination and a tailor-made Hollywood script
“We regret to inform you that we hire only non-Muslim candidates,” a human resources executive at a Mumbai-based firm wrote last week to a stunned job applicant, Zeeshan Ali Khan.
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Twists And Turns In The India-China Border Saga
The border dispute with China is so old but Indians are yet to come to grips with how this dispute can be resolved. The historical roots of the Sino-Indian frontiers have been narrated in several accounts.
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What I Learnt from Karaikal Ammaiyar and Her Closet of Adornments
Vanity is at once discouraged and encouraged in women.
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