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Healthcare and the Medical Profession:
The increasing cost of medical treatment, the lack of effective checks by the state casts doubt on the level of ethics in the medical profession. The healthcare industry doing so admirably in India only enhances these worries. The editorial looks into what might be going wrong when a profession/ industry thrives but there is no improvement in the development indicators associated with it –infant mortality, life expectancy etc.
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The Tree of Life
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India’s ‘Foreign Policy’: A Long way from Bandung |
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Under External Affairs minister SM Krishna, India’s foreign affairs activity seems to have become restricted to registering protests of various sorts – at the indignities suffered by Indians in Australia, at a Russian court’s ban on the Bhagwad Gita in remote Siberia and at SRK being detained for two hours in a US airport. Are India’s foreign policy initiatives directed outward as they should be or are they directed towards influential private interests?
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Kenji Mizoguchi and the Post-War Transformation of Japan:
Kenji Mizoguchi was perhaps the greatest of Japan’s filmmakers. This is an examination of the differences between his pre-war and post-war films and it speculates on how Japan’s defeat and post-war transformation might have radically altered the moral/aesthetic vision of the traditionalist-artist.
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Sansho the Bailiff: an Appreciation:
Sansho the Bailiff is widely regarded as among the greatest of Kenji Mizoguchi’s films. At the centre of the film is the male protagonist’s discovery of various truths through certain maxims learned from his father, one of them being that all people are created equal. This may sound like a well-worn cliché but this essay examines why this commonplace assertion packs so much power and the meaning of Mizoguchi’s moral vision.
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Wound of Faith: Religion and Identity in Dharmaputr (1961) and Zakhm (1998):
This essay is about Hindu-Muslim relation in two Hindi films separated by over three decades and dealing with two key events – Partition and the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
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A Concise History of God in Twenty Paragraphs:
A highly speculative essay about the origins of monotheism and the subsequent conflict between monotheism and polytheism in the old world
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The Elephant and the Dragon: A Young Indian’s Travels in Three Chinese Cities:
A travelogue by a young Indian journeying through X’ian, Beijing and Shanghai.
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Local Tourism in India and China: A Study in Contrasts:
Even a short tour of a province in an alien country can provide insights into how an entire system is run. This is a study of local tourism in Indian and China after a trip to Yunnan province and what it suggests about state power in the two countries.
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