Art in the time of war
Is Shiv Sena's demand that Dilip Kumar return the Nishan-e-Imtiyaz to Pakistan to demonstrate his patriotism just another one of those well-known arm-twisting tactics that Shiv Sena and other like-minded right-wingers adopt at the slightest excuse?

Cops and robbers
The norms of civilised society demand that those who are appointed to keep law and order do not associate socially with those for whom criminal activity is a way of life. Yet everywhere there is evidence to the contrary.

Mimic men on the brink
The Kargil confrontation was the first in human history in which two nuclear powers found themselves in an eyeball-to-eyeball military conflict on such a scale.

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