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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 01:15 AM | January 10,2008
Our children can buy potato chips in 40 flavours, but are denied an education tailored to their needs
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 11:10 PM | January 02,2008
This is the problem with you neoliberal, consumerist, imperialist bourgeois, call-centre pigs
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 01:43 AM | December 27,2007
As globalization opens up the world, the barriers between cultures and societies will crumble
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 11:03 PM | December 19,2007
Some of us are born with biological advantages. Why not replicate those using science?
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 10:41 PM | December 12,2007
Why should my maidservant and your building chaprassi be forced to subsidize theatre in Mumbai?
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 12:11 AM | December 06,2007
The concept of free speech has become a political tool in India, not a principle to fight for
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 10:26 PM | November 28,2007
Our politicians, and many commentators, display double standards when it comes to protecting our rights
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 11:52 PM | November 21,2007
The root cause of terrorism is not poverty but the absence of alternative means of political expression
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 11:01 PM | November 14,2007
The British, when they ruled us, were accused of nothing worse than what is happening in Nandigram
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 10:13 PM | November 07,2007
Shutting down sweatshops solves nothing, and amounts to throwing out the baby with the bathwater
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 12:18 AM | November 01,2007
India’s tragedy lies in the gap between what is seen and what is not seen, a gap illustrated by Bastiat
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 12:56 AM | October 25,2007
If population growth was undesirable, why would people migrate to cities in such large numbers?
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 10:47 PM | October 17,2007
The key to India’s prosperity lies not in the actions of its government, but in the enterprise of its people
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 12:32 AM | October 11,2007
Only a television game show can solve India’s problems. Watch out for Kaun Banega Lok Sabha MP
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Thinking It Through | Amit Varma 12:34 AM | October 04,2007
Governments claim to fulfil people’s needs, but that is something that businesses do best
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