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Your coverage of Indira Gandhi was too flattering. At best, she was a Soviet client who ruthlessly inflicted her dynastic rule and divided the people just as her British masters had done. India is neither democratic nor secular. The U.N. Commission on Human Rights needs to take a close look at Hindu India...
Jackson has staked out a new separatism in multiracial America, and it menaces the culture of our politics, for it challenges the bedrock faith of a nation whose secular theology is equality. Is America a nation of individual Americans or a nation of separate communities? If communities were to be given rewards and responsibilities distributed on lines of kinship, ancestry, skin color or religion, the Lebanonization of American politics might lie down the road. And then would come the Orientals, Caribbeans, Africans with other demands. Was ours a nation of separate groups? Or a nation of individual people clinging...
...have Sikhs like this around me, then I don't believe I have anything to fear." When the director of the country's central intelligence organization suggested to Mrs. Gandhi in July that Sikhs be removed from her security staff, she had refused. "How can we claim to be secular?" she had asked in a hastily scrawled note. Not far from Beant Singh stood Satwant Singh, 21, who had been assigned to Mrs. Gandhi's detail five months before...
There is little point, 94 years after his death, in trying to imagine what Van Gogh would have made of all this. Neither the modern mass audience for art, nor the elevation of the artist as a secular saint, nor the undercurrent of faith in the expiratory powers of self-sacrificial genius really existed in 1890. The insoluble paradox of museumgoing, which is that famous art gets blotted out by the size of its public, had not become an issue, and it was not thought "elitist" to express regrets about it. Yet one feels it matters more with Van Gogh...
...transposed into flyaway humor, as in Klee; or semi-industrialized, as in the fulsome productions of late Dubuffet; or, by a host of minor artists, boorishly rehashed as a sign of "sincerity." But it never quite goes away - for who wants to face the tedium of a wholly secular culture...