Sunday Sentiments
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Let’s see if I can present the pros and cons of One Nation One Election simply, accurately and fairly. This could help you understand the concept and its desirability...
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If you’ve ever wondered what the life of an Indian diplomat is like, dip into Aftab Seth’s memoirs. He spent his career caught up in the Lebanese civil war, carryin...
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I come from a generation when it wasn’t unknown for disobedient children to be slapped. Daddy never raised his hand. Though an army officer, he was an indulgent, soft...
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My initial impression of the first volume of Mani Shankar Aiyar’s autobiography was the author doesn’t believe brevity is the soul of wit. The opening chapters of â...
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I find biographies particularly fascinating. Not only because you get involved in the life of the central character but they’re also full of anecdotes that are fun to...
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It was Diwan Jarmani Dass’s Maharaja that started my fascination with the foibles, peccadillos, pranks, eccentricities and scandals of our erstwhile royals. I was a t...
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The one thing I expect of our politicians – and even more so of heads of government – is a certain modicum of knowledge. They need to know the rights we’re guaran...
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Do we really know our heroes? We place them on pedestals and revere them. We talk about them frequently and eloquently. We even quote from them. But that’s different ...
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Adjectives cannot convey the horror of what’s happened in Manipur. It’s beyond description. Instead, it’s been seared into our conscience like the dreadful Nirbha...
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I’m not well informed about caste and the invidious way it’s infiltrated our system. So it’s fortuitous good fortune that I was sent Manoj Mitta’s ‘Caste Prid...
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By Karan Thapar