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The hunger for barbarity will affect people in their private and public lives, as it obliterates the fine line that separates sanity from lunacy.

A thirst for barbarity The culture of brutality preached over the past several months will leave indelible marks on the people’s psyche.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Countering radicalisation through media - The Express Tribune It is the media’s responsibility to develop a counter-narrative that terrorism has no faith

It is true that the commercial value which a knowledge of English commands, and the fact that the final examinations of the high schools are conducted in English, cause the secondary schools to be subjected to a certain pressure to introduce prematurely both the teaching of English and its use as a medium of instruction… This tendency however should be corrected in the interest of sound education. As a general rule, a child should not be allowed to learn English as a language until he has made some progress in the primary stages of instruction and has received a thorough grounding in his mother-tongue.

When will we learn? Dr Salam and Iqbal did not know their future careers at the start of their education, nor did they start it in English.

Reviving a party
THE Congress Working Committee (CWC) met in New Delhi on June 6, with its president Sonia Gandhi in the chair, to pave the way for elevation of the vice president — her son Rahul — to the presidency by Oct 15.

On major issues like the long-simmering farmers’ unrest as on much else, its contribution to the debate has been a justified denunciation of the BJP government. But it has been calculatedly timid on sensitive issues like attacks on the Dalits and Muslims, and, most revealingly, on the outrages in Kashmir.
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Reviving a party The Congress needs an inspiring leadership.