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What if India hadn’t gone into the 1971 war?
Jaithirth Rao in the Indian Express: “The ‘liberation’ of Bangladesh has been presented as a significant moment in the history of free India, in fact in the history of the …
What if India had not been Partitioned in 1947?
Jaithirth Rao in The Indian Express: “Jaswant Singh’s book is a brilliant landmark encompassing accepted and contrarian views. According to him, Partition (he uses the emotion-laden word “vivisection”) is the …
What makes you rich needn’t make you better
Jaithirth Rao in The Indian Express: “Oil has been at best a mixed blessing for its possessors. Consider Venezuela, once a shining democracy true to Betancourt’s legacy, an economy on …
When Puravankara says Jayakar Jerome zindabad
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: It is perhaps a sign of the times when nothing shocks or surprises us any more. Or perhaps a sign that the line between …
‘We drink in our caste with our mother’s milk’
Apropos the news about “Dalit Christians” being barred entry into an “upper caste” Church in a village in Tamil Nadu, Jaithirth Rao writes in The Indian Express: “From Abbe Dubois …
‘Bank are real beneficiaries of farm loan waiver’
The conventional wisdom on Union finance minister P. Chidambaram’s Rs 60,000 farm loan write-off has been that public sector banks will have to take the “hit”. But BFL-mPhasis founder Jaithirth …
Poachers : Forest guards :: Terrorists : Police
Jaithirth Rao in The Indian Express: “If you have visited any of our forests recently, you might, if you are lucky, bump into a forest guard… wearing torn chappals as …
‘Carnatic music can innovate, expand, grow’
Jaithirth Rao in The Indian Express: “My aunt once told me that Telugu was the only “sweet” language that could help extract the rasas of our music. She was dead …
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