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Ayn Rand wrote volumes urging people to be selfish. What? Aren’t people already too selfish? Just do whatever you feel like, be a thoughtless jerk, and exploit people to get ahead. Easy, right? Except that acting thoughtlessly and victimizing others, Rand claims, is not in your self-interest.

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The soul of India lives in its villages, Mahatma Gandhi said. London governed India’s soul then. Delhi and the State capitals now govern India, but not quite in a way that allows people to participate in decision-making. By declaring that the new capital of Andhra Pradesh (A.P.

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The new political dispensation is caught between two visible political discourses that do not look compatible at the moment but the political experiment to find a middle ground that obliterates the tension between them is on.

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It is two years since Alexander Bard founded a new religion called Syntheism in which he claimed that the “the internet is God”. Activist, musician and now religious leader Mr.

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In September 2014, the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University initiated a five-year pilot programme of two dual majors — Computer Science and Music, and Computer Science and English.

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Any curious observer of international affairs who completes Glenn Greenwald’s No Place To Hide will be compelled to agree with him, when he says, “the U.S.

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