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Amit Varma is a writer based in Mumbai. He worked in journalism for over a decade, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007. His bestselling novel, My Friend Sancho, was published in 2009. He is best known for his blog, India Uncut. His current project is a non-fiction book about the lack of personal and economic freedoms in post-Independence India.
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This is the 17th installment of The Rationalist, my column for the Times of India. One of my favourite English…
This is the 16th installment of The Rationalist, my column for the Times of India. Steven Pinker, in his book…
This is the 15th installment of The Rationalist, my column for the Times of India. It’s election season, and promises…
A slightly shorter version of this was published as the 14th installment of The Rationalist, my column for the Times…
This is the 88th installment of Rhyme and Reason, my occasional set of limericks for the Sunday Times of India…
14 November, 2007
Nalanda
Dear Jeffrey Garten
Nalanda is in Bihar.
Regards
Amit Varma
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Link via email from Arjun Swarup.
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Update: I would normally never bother to actually explain a quip, but at least 15 readers have written in assuming that I implied in this post that Garten said that Nalanda is not in Bihar. Nothing of the sort. I was simply making the point that Nalanda happens to be in a state where the rule of law is absent, and therefore it is strange to think of building a world-class university there. I wasn’t clear enough, I guess, so mea culpa!
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#106 - Generalissimo 76
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9 across: Van Morrison classic from Moondance (7)
6 down: Order beginning with ‘A’ (12)
Bombastic Little Creep
Question by Amit Varma
This character’s creator described him as “insufferable”, and called him a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep”. On August 6 1975, the New York Times carried his obituary, the only time it has thus honoured a fictional character. Who?