Truth needs no armour
Surely we know the Battle of Britain didn't exactly take place in the way the movies tell us. Nor were the Allied generals so utterly brilliant, their troops so incredibly courageous, as to give the bumbling Germans and the fumbling Japs no hope in hell.



Namaste America
The striking feature of A B Vajpayee's address to the US Congress was the trouble he went to to speak a language Americans understand. He laid out before them a broad swathe of common Indian and American values and interests.



When Maoists turn goons
Bihar, which has always been associated with endemic caste and class violence, until now boasted of at least one accomplishment: the near absence of communal violence.



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