Limits of Nationalism

April 20, 2003 on 12:07 am | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

I wrote in my last column about how arbitrary and tenuous are our borders and how we should treat them with a bit of healthy contempt. The right attitude is to think of ‘South Asia without Borders’, which is the title of a seminar at Harvard, and which is consistent with the cosmopolitan Indian way of the first millennium AD, when Sanskrit was the subcontinent’s common language of culture before the vernaculars rose. Continue reading…

Imperial Fault Lines

April 5, 2003 on 12:08 am | In Newspapers, Times of India | No Comments

Whether it is the continuing ugly massacres in Kashmir or this dreadful war in Iraq, the truth is that far too many of the trouble spots in the world are the consequence of the frontiers created ad hoc by Britain’s wicked old imperialism and the legacy of its divide and quit policy. Continue reading…

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