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Benazir Bhutto

Thursday, December 27, 2007

I don’t know if Benazir Bhutto (1953-2007) would have succeeded in establishing an enduring democracy in Pakistan. Perhaps not, if history is any guide. It is hard to trust the instincts, and indeed the judgment of someone who compares Asif Zardari (and his eight years of incarceration) to Nelson Mandela’s ordeals.
Yet, we must recognize that [...]

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David Halberstam

Monday, April 23, 2007

In the Fall of 2001, I discovered David Halberstam at the CSDS library in Delhi. I read his fascinating biography of Ho Chi Minh and then his brilliant account of America’s misadventure in Vietnam, The Making of a Quagmire, a book that added more than a term to our political vocabulary.
This evening, as I heard [...]

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Poornachandra Tejaswi

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Here is what I always found impressive about K. P. Poornachandra Tejaswi.
Being Kuvempu’s son wasn’t a burden. He was that rare famous son, who forged his own personality and strode the Kannada literary and cultural world as a giant in his own right. He could and did easily say no to worldly positions - from [...]

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The Hope of Obama

Friday, December 22, 2006

Dissertator Sepoy writes on The Audacity of Hope in his spare time. This is the second posting in the series on Shri Barack Obama. Do read it.

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Obama

Saturday, December 16, 2006

Lapata has a fabulous post at Chapatimystery on the man of the hour, Barack Obama. Enjoy.

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Pamuk’s Nobel Lecture

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Here is the link to Orhan Pamuk’s intensely personal Nobel Lecture.
I don’t want to butcher it by picking out a few paragraphs.
Please do read it.

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