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Why not too many Indians bag the Nobel Prize
Every October, India goes through the by-now familiar drill of asking why there are not too many Indian-sounding names on the list of Nobel Prize winners. And on the odd …
Seven things Amartya Sen told Sharmila Tagore
Why do more young people read stories titled “Seven things Amartya Sen told Sharmila Tagore“? For the same reason that more young people are interested in knowing the pet name …
N. Ram’s farewell letter to ‘The Hindu’ staff
The following is the full text of the letter sent off by Narasimhan Ram, editor-in-chief of The Hindu group of publications, to his colleagues on Wednesday, 18 January 2012, on …
The curious case of Zakir Naik & Shekhar Gupta
The gentleman on the right of the frame wants India to be ruled by Shariat laws. He recommends death for homosexuals. He supports Osama bin Laden if he is “fighting …
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world
PRITAM SENGUPTA writes from New Delhi: At the outset, let me state three things loudly and clearly before the bricks start landing. 1) All things considered, the honesty and integrity …
Amartya Sen’s “Idea of Injustice” to the three As
Ever since he became the 52nd human to receive the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel” at the hands of His Majesty, Amartya Sen has …
‘The rising political attraction of street activism’
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen in The Telegraph, Calcutta, on the Singur controversy: “That politics might change over time once the terrible consequences of industrial and economic stagnation are more widely appreciated …
Five (real) lessons for Chamalapura from Dahanu
The decision of the Karnataka government to pick out Chamalapura in H.D. Kote taluk off the map of Mysore for a 1,000 MW coal power plant of the National Thermal …
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