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Of Seers and Doers
"Kanchi Shankaracharya arrested? For murder? You've got to be kidding me". This was a common reaction to this remarkable development as it reverberated through the length and breadth of
India. But if there is a bright side to this Indian OJ saga, it may lie in the fact that mullah and mantri will all be now held to a higher standard.
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Exit Powell, Enter Chawal
An anonymous Hindi bard sang, "Ramchandra keh gaye Siyaa se, aisa Kaliyug aayega. Hans chugega daana, Kauvva moti khaayega". Except poor Colin turned out to be a Kabootar.
To paraphrase the English bard, 'He should have
left hereafter.' Melvin Durai's take.
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First AID
Over the last few years, the Association for India's Development (AID) has been prominent in funding and organizing development projects in India.
In this article, Sirisha Kothuri writes about AID's Portland branch, one of the organizations most active units.
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Who teaches Whom?
Most kids her age would rather be gabbing on the phone or hanging out at the mall. Anarghya Vardhana spent her
holidays working at an orphanage in Udupi.
Her work won her a National Service President's Award. She records her experiences.
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“In Quotes”
"The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within. "
--Mahatma Gandhi
"...The two strands of liberal democracy... are coming apart in the rest of the world. Democracy is flourishing; constitutional liberalism is not.
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--Fareed Zakaria
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