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Sep 4, 2005

Outside agitators

LEVEL PLAYING FIELD The Hindu, 4 September Throughout the 1960s, volunteers who joined the struggle for African-American civil rights in the US southland were denounced as “outside agitators”. The white establishment accused them of stirring up the local blacks, who of course would otherwise have remained content with their lot. Despite its dubious history, the… Read more

Aug 7, 2005

Who’s making excuses now?

Level Playing Field The Hindu, 7 August “The Bombers Are Among Us!” the hoardings across London screamed. It’s the kind of headline that generates heat but not light. And it’s typical of the obstacles Londoners have to negotiate as they struggle to make sense of recent events. The rapid sequence of fearful happenings has bewildered… Read more