Politics

Vijay Narayanan on June 2nd, 2009

Here is what Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court said in a 2001 lecture: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” Depending on where you are on [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on May 17th, 2009

One of the debates over the past few months has been about the use and the ban of torture – or enhanced interrogation techniques – against terror suspects. America’s newfound morality amazes me as a dabbler in history. A sound clip in the Wikipedia entry on the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is of then [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on May 16th, 2009

Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi and Mamata Banerjee will be the names bandied about in the media as the big victors of this election. No denying that. But in an understated way, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, M. Karunanidhi, is one of the biggest winners. Under pressure for being non-committal on the issue of Sri [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on April 20th, 2009

The trouble with people like Arundhati Roy is that they are capable only of being rabble-rousers. I refer specifically to this opinion piece of hers in the Times of India that I read belatedly berating India for not doing enough about the war in Sri Lanka. She ends her piece with an impassioned appeal to [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on January 20th, 2009

… is now the President of the United States of America. A bumper-sticker I saw on the road this morning summed it up succinctly: “2008: End of an Error.“

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