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: Wednesday, February 17, 2021, 2:30 AM IST Wasim Jaffer resignation goes to show how polarisation has crept into the ‘gentleman’s game’, says Sumit Paul In his active cricketing career of close to two decades, playing 31 Tests for India and scoring prolifically on the domestic circuit, Jaffer was never called a religiously prejudiced cricketer. But now in these changed times and climes, religion seems to have become every Indian’s identity and the bête noire of every sane and sensible individual. Wasim Jaffer The subtitle of Christopher Hitchens’ ‘God is not...

BBC News image captionBertrand Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 And so we come again to that glorious moment, just ahead of what I hope is a restful festive season for you and your family, when I wheel out my favourite prose of the year, under the auspices of an implicit endorsement from my long dead hero. You know, to give you a bit of holiday reading when you've eaten too many pies. Welcome to the Russell Prize 2020. And what a year it's been. No, not the pandemic; I'm talking about the prose. Though I guess the two are related. Pandemics bring out the best in pe...

news Amol Rajan reveals the best writing of 2020 © Getty Images Bertrand Russell was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950 And so we come again to that glorious moment, just ahead of what I hope is a restful festive season for you and your family, when I wheel out my favourite prose of the year, under the auspices of an implicit endorsement from my long dead hero. You know, to give you a bit of holiday reading when you've eaten too many pies. Welcome to the Russell Prize 2020. And what a year it's been. No, not the pandemic; I'm talking about the prose. Though I guess the two ar...

The fiction of certain kinds of constitutional protections and at the same time upholding the values of the academy. which are frankly anti-religious. there's no question about that. what's the title of christopher hitchen's book? "religion poisons everything." >> and i look at this and look at the declaration of independence, natural rights, god given, unalienable rights. how can the notion of darwinism, atheism, really progressivism, which i want to get into with you in a moment, they really don't work with constitutionalism, do they? >> we told these truths to be self-evident, that all men ...

The fiction of certain kinds of constitutional protections and at the same time upholding the values of the academy. which are frankly anti-religious. there's no question about that. what's the title of christopher hitchen's book? "religion poisons everything." >> and i look at this and look at the declaration of independence, natural rights, god given, unalienable rights. how can the notion of darwinism, atheism, really progressivism, which i want to get into with you in a moment, they really don't work with constitutionalism, do they? >> we told these truths to be self-evident, that all men ...