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Moreover, the BJP presents a monolithic picture of Hinduism, when in reality Hinduism is intensely variegated across regions, castes and classes. The BJP's conception of Hinduism not only obscures the religion's tolerant beauty, but also has dire political consequences: by ignoring caste inequalities in deference to a larger...
Perhaps now would be a good time to ask ourselves which we fear more: that cloning will produce multiple copies of crazed despots, as in the film The Boys from Brazil; or that it will lead to the society portrayed in Gattaca, the recent science-fiction thriller in which genetic...
With payroll becoming an almost sure-fire route to success, baseball has developed a caste-like system which has sucked the excitement out of our nation's pastime. Teams with small checkbooks can no longer compete for championships, since they are easily squashed by evil empires such as the Yankees...
The Indian writer's debut work, a frenetic treatise on caste prejudice, has had a mixed reception: At least one reviewer found it "pretty hard going" and the London Daily Telegraph described it as "emotive but meaningless verbiage, crammed with inappropriate metaphors." But what seemed to attract the most attention...
As an expatriate, I am hurt to see the politics of India sinking ever deeper into a quagmire of corruption and caste rivalry. The situation today is significantly different from the time when Nehru said, "We made a tryst with destiny." INDRAJIT RAY Guelph, Ont.