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‘The world was his oyster for a Nehruvian Indian’
CHANDRASHEKAR HARIHARAN writes from Bangalore: It is difficult to explain some cruel ironies of life. Late last evening , a senior journalist called me out of the blue to ask …
‘Dalits assertion in Orissa unbearable for Hindus’
R. Akhileshwari, Deccan Herald‘s veteran Hyderabad correspondent, quotes Andhra Pradesh activists working in Orissa as saying that the empowerment and economic improvement of Dalits is at the core of the …
The prince, the white crow & the philanthropist
K. JAVEED NAYEEM writes: A little more than a couple of months ago, on 18th of May, to be precise, I attended a fairly well-attended story-telling session by Sudha Murthy, …
The Google before the real Google came along
churumuri records with regret the passing away of the Kannada critic and columnist H.S. Krishnaswamy Iyengar in Mysore on Friday. He was 89 years old. A longtime columnist on matters …
‘A dispute between two sets of communalists’
Ramachandra Guha in The Telegraph: “In a letter he wrote to the prime minister, the BJP leader, L.K. Advani, described the ongoing conflict in Kashmir as one between the ‘nationalists’ …