Like salvation in ancient times, free
speech is now an exalted goal in itself
[Caste
arithmetic takes centre stage again Medieval battle for Uttar Pradesh Rediff.com» News» February 6, 2012 Such is the weight of identity here in India's
heartland that Rahul Gandhi brought into the UP battleground even Sam Pitroda
-- the Chicago native and technocrat -- who says he is proud to be born in
a carpenter's family.]
Rooting for rootedness
and genealogy in scientific anthropology but denouncing the same within
cultural anthropology is a strange paradox. Recognising the hard demographic
reality instead of worshipping exalted and imagined goals is what the political
parties are perhaps rightly pursuing. [TNM55]
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