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Today’s thought-provoking post is on “Democracy: Should We Bother?” in which Prof Eric Morris questions this “seemingly unquestionable proposition” Some excerpts below (emphasis added)… The apparently sensible response to this arbitrary exercise of authority...
A few weeks ago, I came across Sanjeev Sabhlok’s article on how (and why) the ideas of liberty – so celebrated in the western world today – may actually have had their origins in...
“Democracy is a device that insures that we shall be governed no better than we deserve…” – Adlai Stevenson Related: A few past quotes here.
Start your weekend with this great post by Kislay Chandra on Riots and “Firaaq“. Next, read TVR Shenoy on Why Varun and why not Geelani? but more importantly – think about this question that he raises in the...
Prompted by this excerpt from Gautam Mukherjee’s Op-Ed in “The Pioneer”, “Assert India’s Hindu identity”: If only we were Chinese, we wouldn’t have a Jammu & Kashmir problem at all. If we were Chinese,...
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