26 OCTOBER 2002, page 24

Village Idiots

Amrit Dhillon finds that rural democracy in India is malicious, petty and unimaginably cruel New Delhi IT sounds idyllic. Village councils. Grassroots democracy. The words evoke......

Second Opinion

IS man a product more of his genes than of his environment? Oceans of ink, and even some blood, have been spilt over this question. I have thought of a new solution to this......