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Category: Perspectives
For every human life comes a moment when mortality stares it in the face. For me it came last autumn, when I went to my hometown of Nagpur. My last visit had been three years before, when I had gone to tend to my dying mother. Now I was ...
It’s May, and another batch of students has committed to the colleges where they will matriculate this fall.
Students applying to college this year have done so amidst the hypocritical politicking of would-be leaders. Rick Santorum (B.A., M.B.A., J.D.—though you wouldn’t know ...
Mark Twain once said, “A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.”Gossip has long been dismissed as little more than background noise and blather ...
Is good-will a by-product of a flailing economy?
I gave myself a real birthday present this year. I got off Facebook.
Before you roll your eyes and turn the page (click away? finger swipe?), let me assure you that what follows is not a litany of complaints about Facebook’s (no) privacy policies, the aesthetics of Timeline, the ...
In life, we constantly create thought shafts of either pain or joy. Once you create a shaft of pain, you try to break it. In the same way, if you create a shaft of joy, you try to elongate it. But you don’t understand that you can neither ...
Can Starbucks and McDonalds still be considered American companies?
A Memoirist’s Dilemma
No, caucuses are outdated and deserve to be repealed
Rameysh Ramdas
American democracy has a unique and commendable feature— the primary system. Anyone can, with the power of ideas, the strength of beliefs, and support of rank and file voters represent the party in an election at both federal and ...
Is food a substitute for affection?
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