Monday, July 12, 1999
Saving face
Now that the Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) in Islamabad has jointly decided to `appeal' to the mujahideen to disengage in Kargil, the crosshairs are no longer on Nawaz Sharif.
Login to Heaven
Nietzche was once rash enough to state flatly: ``God is dead''. Well, he made this pronouncement before mortality took its toll on him. After all, golden lads and German philosophers all must, like chimney sweepers come to dust.
The end of dissent
This is the writer as citizen: ``Why have we abdicated the political arena? Why should writers only write, painters only paint and actors only act? It is time to reclaim the political arena.'' This is Arundhati Roy defending her cause.
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