Aun ciudadano de andar por casa, el dilema entre quedarse sin ministerio de Defensa o sin luz no le merece ni un átomo de reflexión, puede fundirse todo el blindaje de los ejércitos siempre que la bombilla siga encendida. De ahí que sorprenda la parálisis, ante la factura desbocada, de un Gobierno electrizante por tantos conceptos. El saqueo de la plebe con cargas anejas a la vivienda se organizó en cuanto los ciudadanos se desengancharon del yugo esclavista de las hipotecas. No fue accidental que los constructores asaltaran las eléctricas en masa, para desviar al megawatio los beneficios extraídos hasta entonces del megaladrillo.
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1 Jallianwala Bagh: A Groundbreaking History of the 1919 Massacre by VN Datta. Penguin Random House. Pages 248. Rs 399
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Owing to its association with the “frightfulness” of Dyer mercilessly mowing down 700 blameless Indians without cause, Baisakhi in April brings to mind the opening lines of TS Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’:
April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of dead land, mixing
Memory with desire…
In 1969, on the 50th anniversary of the ghastly event, historian Vishwa Nath Datta, born and brought up in the vicinity of the Bagh and, therefore, personally acquainted with many of the survivors and loved ones of those brutally shot down, brought out this monograph of under 150 pages to tell the historical truth of what happened; why it happened; how participants and observers, British and Indian, reacted to the gory bloodletting of innocent hundreds; and what were its far-reaching consequences for Indo-British relations and the End
The Pen and the Sword: A Brief History of War Correspondents
From ancient cave drawings to the Internet, men have been reporting their wars almost as long as they have been fighting them.
Here s What You Need to Know: Men have been reporting their wars almost as long as they have fighting them. The first prehistoric cave drawings depicted hunters bringing down wild animals, and spoken accounts of battles, large and small, formed the starting point for the oral tradition of history. All native cultures have mythologized warfare and glorified warriors, often giving them divine status. The Greek poet Homer’s epic works,
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Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here.
When the British spy novelist John le Carré died last Saturday, many obituaries noted how his gripping tales of Cold War espionage were informed by his own experiences in the U.K. intelligence agency MI5. His firsthand knowledge of spycraft provided verisimilitude for those bestselling works, beginning with âThe Spy Who Came in From the Coldâ in 1963.
That verisimilitude extended to the jargon of spying in his novels, which had the ring of truth. But in fact, le Carré would often make up his own terms. As he revealed to a BBC interviewer in 1976, âIâve used some authentic words, but I prefer my own really.â Those le Carré-isms include âscalphunter,â âhoney-trap,â âlamplighterâ and âpavement artist.â
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