Saturday, April 24, 1999
Return to the voter
The letter that Mulayam Singh Yadav wrote to President K.R. Narayanan affirming that the Samajwadi Party is equidistant from the Congress and the BJP puts paid to the Congress party's desire to form a government.
Small is not beautiful
In the game of musical chairs being choreographed in the Capital, a cynical reversal of democratic principles has been enforced. The two national formations, the BJP and the Congress -- with 182 and 139 MPs, respectively, in the Lok Sabha -- seem distinctly leaden-footed.
The redundancy of prejudice
Theories of nationalism have been traditionally divided into two main categories: instrumentalism and primordialism. The former conceived nationalism as a product of elite manipulation and contend that nations can be fabricated, if not invented.
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