Sunday Sentiments
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Summer is said to be the silly season in Britain. With parliament in recess, schools and universities closed and people on holiday, newspapers and television scramble f...
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Until recently I only knew of two authors who’ve written about their parents’ marriages. One is Nigel Nicolson, who’s ‘Portrait of a Marriage’ was about the v...
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It’s a paradox that China is by far our most powerful neighbour yet we know little and understand even less of how this country views us. Two excellent books, publish...
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Aryan Khan’s treatment at the hands of the Narcotics Control Board (NCB) ought not to be surprising. I’m pretty sure tens of thousands, if not millions, of Indians ...
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Is the government ill-advised? Or has it failed to understand the real causes of food inflation? Or does it like to act in a dramatic fashion to create a suitable impre...
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It’s a dreadful cliché but perhaps it best explains a proposal by former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to change the governance structure o...
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I know 36 years is a long time in the Philippines, where 70% of the people were not even born in 1986, but I’m still flummoxed and stunned by the fact the son of the ...
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Adesh Gupta, the President of the Delhi Bhartiya Janata Party, has written to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal asking for the names of 40 Mughal-era villages to be change...
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I get sent a lot of books but only browse through a few and read an even smaller number. So I have to thank my lucky stars Nariman Karkaria’s caught my attention. Per...
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This Sunday I want to raise a question which, if you try to answer it, will help you understand one of the saddest and most disturbing transformations happening in our ...
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By Karan Thapar