On Artistic Freedom, Censorship and Responsibility
*** This is a hurried post stolen from a 20-min window at work *** Dear Readers, This has proven to be a great discussion…Unfortunately at times, (I feel) it has bordered on the idealistic...
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UPDATED: Is Taslima being treated differently from MF Husain?
From Free Press Journal, via Sify: “M F Hussain spared, but not me: Taslima” (emphasis mine) ….She (Taslima)Â said in her outspoken manner why she was being attacked whereas ‘nothing happened to M F Hussain...
Of Subsidies and Politics of “Secularismâ€
I stumbled on this completely by chance over the weekend. Does anyone know what happened to the PIL�referred to in the report below? *** SC stays HC restraint on Haj subsidy (Excerpts; emphasis mine)...
The “truth†about a “benevolent Empireâ€
Varnam posted this great entry on “The Benevolent Empire” earlier this week which mentions how British rule ended up with an impoverished India (emphasis mine): When Clive of India came to Bengal, he described...
What exactly is a “one-track” investigation?
Reacting to the serial blasts in UP today, Comrades A B Bardhan and Shamim Faizi said: “it was obviously the handiwork of the forces who were hell bent upon creating communal tension in the country” …but...
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