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Deshpande: The Fantasy of Endless Consumption
Commentary, December, 26 2007
Sudhanva Deshpande
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Almost suddenly, the lower middle class has become a subject of Hindi films.
Deshpande: The Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal and the Corporate Media
Commentary, August, 27 2007
Sudhanva Deshpande
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There is something deeply reassuring about the corporate media's attacks on the Left in the context of the Left's opposition to India's nuclear deal with the US - the Left must be doing something right. And going by the shrillness of the attack, i...
Deshpande: The Belly of the Beast
Commentary, August, 03 2007
Sudhanva Deshpande
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Like the underage kid who screeches past frightened children in his father's fancy new sports car, the United States is a country you just cannot ignore. No matter where we may live on the planet, it is the one country that we know the most about ...
Deshpande: Nandigram and After
Commentary, June, 25 2007
Sudhanva Deshpande
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The small voice of history has delivered another statement in the local government by-elections in West Bengal. The people didn't write manifestos for or against this or that policy. They spoke at the polls.
Deshpande: West Bengal
Znet Article, June, 01 2007
Sudhanva Deshpande
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Isn't our life a tunnelbetween two clarities? Pablo Neruda, Libros de las preguntas, 1974. In August 2006, Mamata Banerjee traveled to Singur, home to around 20,000 people in the state of West Bengal. Banerjee, who was once an activis...
Deshpande: Is the Death of Art Upon Us?
Commentary, October, 11 2006
Sudhanva Deshpande
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In 1937, at the height of the Spanish Civil War, General Franco's planes bombed Guernica, the holy city of the Basques, for three days. The city was flattened, and about 1600 people were killed, a large number children. The event shocked the world...
Deshpande: Nepal on the Verge of Bastille
Commentary, April, 22 2006
Sudhanva Deshpande
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Nepal's king Gyanendra is a very adamant man. He is also a very foolish man. The writing is on the wall. The king has to go. Monarchy has to go. Democracy has to be established. The whole world can see this. Except Gyanendra.
Deshpande: Harry Potter And The Dilemma Of The Left
Commentary, August, 17 2005
Sudhanva Deshpande
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I like Harry Potter.
Deshpande: Indian elections: Left, Right, and Centre
Znet Article, May, 15 2004
Sudhanva Deshpande
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In a stunning reversal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) has lost the election to the Indian Parliament to the alliance led by the Congress (I). Simultaneously, the electorate has returned the largest ever co...
Deshpande: George Bush in New Delhi
Znet Article, March, 22 2003
Sudhanva Deshpande
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A large demonstration was held today, on 22 March 2003, at the American Embassy in New Delhi. The demonstration was going on expected lines as speaker after speaker condemned the American action in Iraq, till a most unexpected event occurred. A sp...
Deshpande: Terror Feeds Terror
Znet Article, September, 26 2002
Sudhanva Deshpande
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On the evening of Tuesday, 24 September 2002, thirteen days after 9/11, armed militants stormed into the Swaminarayan temple in Gandhinagar, the capital of the western Indian state of Gujarat, and opened fire on Hindu devotees gathered there for e...
