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Dealing with the New Cold War

Published on September 2, 2008 in Commentary. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

The summer war in the Caucasus does not have any real winner. However, like all the wars ever fought in the history of mankind, it is the common people who have come out as clear losers. While Dmitry Medvedev and Mikhail Saakashvili play the brutal war game, it is the people who pay the price.

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Torture by proxy

Published on June 8, 2008 in Commentary. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .

I love reading Franz Kafka (1883-1924), a master story-teller. Thanks to his classic novels, The Metamorphosis and The Trial, “Kafkaesque” is now a synonym for senseless, disorienting and bizarre storylines with menacing complexity. Take The Trial, where Kafka writes about Josef K, who wakes up one morning, gets arrested, then prosecuted for an unspecified crime. Now, the real-life developments in an Italian court would easily have failed even Franz Kafka’s imagination, I bet.

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