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Sharaad Kuttan is a journalist currently rummaging about the cultural baggage gifted to us by decades of authoritarian rule.

Don’t drink the Kool-Aid

October 30, 2012

OCT 30 — So the last of the US presidential debates is done and for us who live beyond the borders of America, we can finally take stock of what’s at stake for us when this … Read More

The great political bake-off

October 04, 2012

OCT 4 — Can one read in the victorious crumbs of the Michelle Obama-Ann Romney cookie bake-off portents of the November 6 US presidential election? Probably not.After all in 2008 … Read More

A gun to my head

November 04, 2011

NOV 4 — I had wanted to begin this essay by drawing attention to the disturbing death threat received by constitutional law expert Prof Aziz Bari for expressing an opinion … Read More

The talented Mr RPK

April 30, 2011

APRIL 30 — You could be forgiven for confusing RPK with the comedian Harith Iskandar. While it’s true that they both have shaved pates and ethnically indeterminate looks, it is … Read More

Gandhi was bicameral, so what?

April 08, 2011

APRIL 8 — Until about mid-afternoon Wednesday, I was feeling light-headed from the sheer laughable depths the country’s politics had plunged to.Before then, a brazen attempt to … Read More

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