Turning a deaf ear

Thursday , Sep 17, 2009 at 0351 hrsGandhiji’s rulesAs usual, Gandhiji’s rules, sprinkled throughout his writings, speeches, letters, are an excellent guide, even though for us pygmies, trying to abide by them taxes one to the limit.“I do not read newspapers as a rule, but look at the enclosed in The Leader...” writes Gandhiji answering a series of letters from C.F. Andrews against the Khilafat

A few lessons

Source: Indian Express Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009 at 0232 hrs“Arun Shourie has attacked the Chief Minister, A.R. Antulay because the latter has opposed America’s decision to give arms to Pakistan... Arun Shourie’s well-known connections with the American CIA... He was got a job at the World Bank... Since his return to India, he has been using the pretext of his son’s illness to regularly visit his

Master strategies

Source: Indian Express Thursday , Aug 27, 2009 at 0530 hrsHere we are breaking each other’s heads over Partition when the man who presided over it has already assumed responsibility for so much that happened. Here is what we find in Stanley Wolpert’s Shameful Exit, (Oxford University Press, New York, 2006, p. 2):“When asked how he felt about his Indian viceroyalty eighteen years ago after