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The Right to Disagree
Parvaiz Bukhari
What hope does a free exchange of ideas have in a litfest whose organisers themselves won’t stomach dissent?
(Fading) Superpower Games
America has taken upon itself this last decade to reshape the world in its own disfigured image. Will it spend the next decade recoiling from the result?
The Death of Counterculture
Even ten years after 9/11, American popular culture continues to mimic the hollow piety of the political establishment. Granted the honourable exceptions
Anna’s Taandava
The wave of recent popular uprisings, including our very own, are reminiscent of an ancient cathartic tradition. Some will remember it as the Dancing Mania
No Scope for Reddy Redemption
Janardhan and Jagan have been partners in ways so clear and clever that they cannot but drag each other down
Debt in Disguise?
The RBI wants equity to be equity, with no guarantee of a payback. But foreign PE firms insist on fixed returns on investments
The Savings Shift
Strapped for money, most Indians have sought a risk-return midpoint. It’s quite a mindset shift from the pre-2008 days
Situation Vacant
There’s a job going at Apple Inc. Not the one its maverick co-founder just relinquished in favour of new CEO Tim Cook, the other one that involved second-guessing the consumer. Anyone?
After Nitish, the Flood
In a scandal typical of Bihar, money was sanctioned to repair over a thousand kilometres of zamindari embankments that did not exist. Nobody knows where the funds went
The Post-Anna Political Arena
The Lokpal issue, as Rahul Gandhi appears to fear, has left the Congress at risk of losing its young urban voters. But whether the BJP will gain them is not clear
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