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Forgetting Mumbai

Just as I had feared, people are beginning to forget Mumbai. Reminded me of Blasts? What Blasts? ‘Yeh to hota hi rahta hai’. At some point in the next few weeks, the pain, sorrow...

Do we need to re-invent the wheel?

In conversation after conversation following the attacks in Mumbai, the one thing that invariably comes up at some point is the need for “ordinary” people (or to be more accurate non-professional politicians) to get involved...

What is Freedom? – by Sanjeev Sabhlok

Continuing the promised series of articles by Sanjeev Sabhlok, here is Sanjeev on Freedom. Please note that the emphasis is mine. Freedom first A country is jointly created by its citizens through a social contract...

The nonsense about “non-state actors”

In a widely reported statement, Pakistan’s PM President* Asif Ali Zardari said recently that India should not let rogue “non-state actors” push the two countries into a confrontation, thereby implying that non-state actors were solely...