US elections | US elections
Oct.25.2012
If 19.6 % Americans believe in “nothing in particular”, it in fact draws attention to US politics within the piety framework.
Forget about separation of religion and state. Can religion survive without a state? Would it be orphaned without patriotic fervour?
I come from a country that is...
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Sep.05.2012
Michelle Obama did what any good wife does – made her husband look like he needed her. By default, America needs her. Apparently, her speech at the Democratic Convention was a huge hit. Political spouses play a major role in US politics.
So, did her human interest angle make sense? As...
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Nov.05.2008
Last night, watching the US elections unfold, I was reminded inexorably of the very first South African elections on that country's long march to "liberation."
I lived in Johannesburg for the year preceding the historic 1994 elections that finally ended apartheid, signalled most...
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Oct.30.2008
I was back in Delhi just after the 2004 US elections. In the taxi from IGI into the city, I ended up with a rather voluble Sikh driver. After enquiring after my family, job, marital status, income (usual Indian-style small talk), he asked a question that stumped me. "Madam," he asked, and...
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