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Born in India; lived in the U.S. for over a decade. Am usuually in a permanent state of astonishment at the banality of evil - that is to say, not at those who perpetuate it - their actions are quite understandable - but in the ability of otherwise rational people to downplay it, retool it into something innocuous, pretend it does not exist. Sometimes all the astonishment erupts into writing, a not wholly undesirable outcome, as I would not otherwise know what to do with it all.
SHARE Monday, August 3, 2009 The Zen Tiger: India 's Elections And The Magic Of Fareed Zakaria
Challenges Fareed Zakaria's claim that the defeat of left parties in India somehow constitutes a mandate for free-market economics. Quite, in fact, the contrary - especially in one of the Left's biggest strongholds - the state of West Bengal.