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India Is there life after democracy?
By mpatel at 4 July, 2009, 10:42 am
By Arundhati Roy While we’re still arguing about whether there’s life after death, can we add another question to the cart? Is there life after democracy? What sort of life will it be? By democracy I don’t mean democracy as an ideal or an aspiration. I mean the working model: Western liberal democracy, and its [...]
Read More >>Mexico president given George Orwell’s 1984 by the Queen
By mpatel at 30 March, 2009, 10:25 am
The president of Mexico received one of the more unusual gifts given by the Queen during an incoming state visit today – a copy of the classic dystopian novel 1984.
Read More >>Iran-Sudan-Hamas chain exposed
By mpatel at 26 March, 2009, 2:10 pm
The latest reports of an alleged IAF strike on a Hamas arms convoy in Sudan in January draw attention to an arms network running from Iran, via the Persian Gulf and Yemen to Sudan, Egypt, and finally, Hamas-ruled Gaza.
Read More >>Shuttle Discovery blasts off for space station
By mpatel at 16 March, 2009, 9:29 am
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The U.S. space shuttle Discovery blasted off its seaside launch pad on Sunday with a pair of solar wing panels and the first Japanese resident astronaut for the International Space Station.
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