Discovery of Northeast
It may be premature to congratulate Home Minister L K Advani on becoming a true believer in multiculturalism. However the demands of his job are such that he is beginning to sound like one.

Mocking democracy
Let it never be said that India's enduring experiment with democracy is bereft of innovation and colour.

Continental conversion
From the soil of Hindu-majority India, the Pope has called for evangelising Asia. Even as the first millennium witnessed the Christianisation of Europe, and the second the evangelisation of Africa.

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