July 12, 2008

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Ah, the travails of high office.
The cruelest thing being that, once elected, Presidents and Prime Ministers should be expected to honour what a majority of the citizens feel or think about issues.
Nothing more debilitating than that the exercise of executive power should be cribbed and confined by the nit-picking sentiments of petty reason and common sense.
Nature may break the levees and uproot whole populations, but Presidents and Prime Ministers may not. You might well ask (…)

“Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone but only his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.” —Fyodor Dostoyevsky
CPI-M General Secretary Prakash Karat recently wrote in the first issue of newly-launched fortnightly, Covert, that (…)