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...success of the Congress Party resulted from people voting against the economic policies of the then government. Many Indians, however, are bent on portraying the victory as a defeat of Hindu nationalism. Just as Americans are being called enemies of Islam, the majority Hindus of India are said to be intolerant of the minority Muslims, despite much evidence to the contrary. Some in the Congress Party have been exploiting the Muslim vote by spreading the canard of Hindu intolerance. It may sound unbelievable, but apart from a small lunatic fringe, most Hindus raise their voices against discrimination toward Muslims. Rajendra...
They designed H Bomb Magazine, they said, not as a pornographic outlet, but to start a dialogue on campus about issues of sexuality, with a special focus on literature and art with a sexual bent...
...Bent on a different outcome, Skate joined Opposition plotters at the provincial town of Alotau, saying he had "bugger all" to do as acting vice-regent and wanted to be a politician again. Some government M.P.s too were enticed to Alotau; others, bearing offers of ministries and vice-ministries, were sent to lure them back. Repentant rebels later said they'd been intimidated by political minders with pistols; "I had to swim with the tide," said one, "until I could get away safely...
...Case is set there, back when it was the English colony of Ceylon--"a useful bauble," De Kretser writes, "fingered and pocketed by the Portuguese, Dutch and British in turn." Our hero is Sam Obeysekere, a Ceylonese lawyer educated at Oxford who, with his genteel Western airs, is seemingly bent on out-Englishing the English. His story takes some time to reveal itself as a mystery, but it does so when Obeysekere takes on the case of a respectable English planter--Hamilton--who gets shot in the chest. "Murder, a moonless night, the jungle crowding close...
...waste and cruelty. So to be considered good and honored in memory, a war must overcome its very nature, leap past means to ends. World War II remains the model Good War, and D-day, its greatest day--one of those rare hinges of history that might have bent the other way. It had taken years for the U.S. to embrace its urgent necessity and hurl itself into the battle. The invasion plan, two years in the making, was still a mad gamble; though the force was overwhelming, the outcome was never assured. The 150,000 men who landed that...