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You should run for office

By Ananda | Published: May 8, 2010
At least that’s what one of my former students told me at Tata-Dhan Academy’s third convocation, during which I got to dress up in a very white shirt and a long white dhoti.
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Compassion and Empathy and Sticks and Stones

By Ananda Mahto | Published: December 8, 2007
For people in a country that is supposed to be based on Gandhian principles of tolerance and pacifism and where people won’t eat meat because all animals are God’s creatures or whatever, most Indians I’ve observed sure seem to have a strange way of showing compassion for animals. It looks like a special kind of [...]
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