Public opinion will never be devoid of ideology; but we shall destroy ourselves without philosophical courage
Sometimes we meet people just once, or fleetingly, but their kind gestures manage to touch our hearts.
Violence destroys the conscience and renders us captive to the reptilian mind within
A historian should incorporate uncomfortable facts in his argument. Zakaria avoids them.
A hint at the need for a different paradigm to the debate, but no exit routes yet
A half-baked reader that ignores Gujarat and concentrates only on internal organisation
Naxalism recruits victims of progress. This is a warning.
A book that exhorts India’s planners to see its poor as human beings, not as ‘factors of production’
The major left currents have never rejected the practice of political assassination.
Not tainted ‘opportunism’ but conscience subjugated by ideology is what stands between idealism and the Leftist. Choosing empathy over polemic may turn the tide, leading to reconciliation instead of the familiar spiralling of crimes and suffering.
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