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...Vajpayee's new status as paramount leader of the BJP is a turnaround for the 79-year-old politician, who was once sidelined within the party because of his reputation as a moderate. A Hindi poet of some merit, Vajpayee is known for his witty repartee and avuncular congeniality. With his tendency to speak in cryptic one-liners, the Prime Minister is often a sphinxlike figure, who leaves observers guessing about his true feelings on issues such as Hindu nationalism. Under his prime ministership, however, the BJP-led coalition that has ruled India since 1998 has disappointed Hindu fundamentalists...
...They are just doing their job. I think members of the election commission knew that there wasn’t any merit and they just wanted to double check,” he said...
Harvard women know there are many times we do not feel safe walking around at night. After last week’s assault—the fifth of this semester—we are again cruelly reminded that our fears are not unjustified paranoia. They do indeed hold merit...
Kavulla’s critique of the committee’s foundation courses is also without merit as he neglected to fully investigate the fact that students are engaged in grappling with the tensions that have been a part of feminist theory since its inception. Students are constantly examining the core questions that underpin feminist theory: how to define feminism, how to construct a theory and a praxis that is meaningfully inclusive, how to describe the subject of feminism, how to examine an array of areas of feminist inquiry (including motherhood, marriage and sexuality) and how to engage with...
...That Kavulla failed to represent any of this in his simplified caricature of women’s studies is a disservice to members of the community who have not yet taken a course in women’s studies and who take Kavulla’s representation to have merit...