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The Conservatism of Doubt 17 Jul 2013 | 05:09 am
Conservatism to me means questioning the old, doubting the new, yet comfort with necessary change. *** There is a common arc to all our competing histories. An idyllic universe disturbed by barbaria...
The Wisdom of Humility 27 Apr 2013 | 08:15 am
Who writes the extraordinary dissent? The West Wing, Season 5, Episode 17 *** He was old school Wall Street, the kind who smashed phones when trades went wrong. People were scared of him, he didn't l...
2000 Indian Rupees 21 Apr 2013 | 04:55 am
That there is evil in this world is clear from what he did to her. I've struggled with words on this one. Even my outrage is numb. So I've mostly read and listened. The most sordid of all the ugly d...
Gross National Grace 23 Mar 2013 | 06:48 pm
In his classic novel, Shibumi, Trevanian describes "the ineffable quality" as follows: Shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it...
The Dunciad 16 Apr 2012 | 10:34 am
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall And Universal Darkness buries All | Alexander Pope *** Mamata Banerjee is merely one more petty dictator in our dunciad full of them. You see them in b...
The Indian Right 8 Apr 2012 | 12:32 pm
National Review, founded by the late William F Buckley, has long been the intellectual fuel behind the American conservative revolution. When faced with John Derbyshire, one of its prized writers, ha...
A False Tryst With Destiny 25 Mar 2012 | 05:01 am
"To be born again," sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die" | Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie *** The India that emerged from that dark midnight in August was a fanta...
The Missing Mirror 19 Feb 2012 | 03:20 pm
The Indian State should have been as relentless as Zakia Jaffri has been. It should have heard every allegation, pursued every lead, tried the accused, and jailed the guilty. That it hasn't will hau...
The Wheel of Ashoka 30 Jan 2012 | 03:15 am
Watching "Inshallah Kashmir" the other day, I had an epiphany. I now understand why we talk past each other on so many things. *** All issues worth debating have layers in them. Which layer one cho...
Black Swan in Dal Lake 3 Jan 2012 | 08:43 am
The specifics of the CISF shooting will emerge in time. I'd like to make three larger points. One. The governance capacity of the Indian State falls far short of the demands on it. Two. This capacit...
