Commentary

The following article is by Chaste. The article was written as a response to the following two reviews in the New York Review of Books: * Three Questions for America * The Right to Ridicule Note I respond to two articles by Ronald Dworkin to illustrate the pitfalls of using lawyerly thinking

A khaki-clad Western aid worker is helping unload a truck in a sun-baked, dusty, barren place surrounded by black (sometimes brown) faces. It could be a scene from any of the countless news clips from the equally countless number of crises that continue to rain down upon obscure parts of

“Shakespeare Wallah” was my introduction to the magic of Merchant Ivory Productions. An elegy to a lost era, a bitter-sweet tale of a traveling English theatre troupe in India right after the Indian independence, it is still vivid in my memory. The debonair Shashi Kapoor and Satyajit Ray’s beautiful