Afraid of one's shadow
Ever wondered why we, in India, continue to harbour a peculiar form of McCarthyism that is usually the hallmark of paranoic, no-hope-in-hell dictatorships?



Ring out the old
Will we carry the old hates, the old intolerance into the New Year? There is something disquietingly similar about two separate developments in the last week of the dying year.



India and the world
US President Bill Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin. The fact that an American president came to this country after more than two decades goes to prove the new significance that the world's lone superpower attaches to this country today.



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