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Asian Age, 28 November 2008
"There’s more evidence to come yet, please your Majesty," said the White Rabbit. "It’s a set of verses."
"Are they in the prisoner’s handwriting?"
"No, they’re not," said the White Rabbit.
"He must have imitated somebody else’s hand," said the King.
"Please your Majesty," said the Knave, "I didn’t write it, and they can’t prove I did: there’s no name signed at the end".
"If you didn’t sign it," said the King, "that only makes the matter worse. You must (…)

The Island, 27 November 2008
The US Elections
In recent years, America’s claim to be a democracy has been seriously damaged in the eyes of its own citizens. Even the most minimal definition of democracy – that it entails free and fair elections – was contradicted by two presidential elections (in 2000 and 2004), in which there was damning evidence that George W. Bush won only because the vote was rigged.
The fact that the overwhelming majority of those who were disenfranchised in the (…)

We are deeply shocked at the decision to cancel the screening of a documentary made by the eminent Indian painter M.F. Husain, after it had been scheduled for November 25 at the ongoing International Film Festival of India in Goa. We are also profoundly alarmed at the wider implications of this act of blatant censorship imposed on artistic production.

There is something called Sangh parivar terrorism, just as there is al-Qaeda terrorism. Neither Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur nor Osama bin Laden represent their respective faiths, nor do their organisations represent the people who they claim to represent.

The emergence of the Hindutva terrorist network cannot be seen in isolation from the climate of divisiveness, parochialism and chauvinist nationalism and the culture of hatred that the BJP has promoted in its cynical pursuit of power. Violence is integral to this culture. Indeed, it is part of the party’s strategy of political mobilisation.