Shashi Tharoor
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How Free Is the Free Press? (opens the original)
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I am, in a sense, a child of the Indian newspaper. My late father, Chandran Tharoor, started in the newspaper business when barely out of college, representing a pair of Indian papers in post-war London, and spent his working life as a senior advertising executive for some of our countryâs better-known mastheads. His world fascinated me. My child hood in the 1960s and early 1970s was replete with stories of editorial meetings and battles between the editorial and the advertisement departments,
Testament of a Radical Liberal (opens the original)
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THE EDITORâS INVITATION TO USE THIS SPACE TO EXPOUND my own political beliefs, as India celebrates the 79th anniversary of its Independence, comes at an opportune time. If there was ever a time for an Indian writer to articulate a personal and expanded idea of an authentically Indian liberalism, it is now. The current legitimisation of illiberal alternatives and the erosion of trust in egalitarian democracy, the surrender of individual liberties to the hands of a ruling dispensation that has o
The Soul of the Republic: Indiaâs Constitutional Promise Still Demands Vigilance, Faith and Renewal (opens the original)
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AS INDIA NEARS the end of the eighth decade of its independence, we are living through a period in which democracies across the world are confronting searching questions about their institutions, their values, and, indeed, their very future. Across continents, we see polarisation replacing dialogue, majoritarian impulses challenging constitutional restraints, and public trust in democratic institutions steadily eroding. Even some of the worldâs oldest democracies are discovering that constitut
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