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Exactly twenty five years ago today, Salman Rushdie received an unusual Valentine: a fatwa from Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini calling for his head. This you already know. But why did India and South Africa ban the book many months before Iran...

By Richard Grenier — March 1983 I had the singular honor of attending an early private screening of Gandhi with an audience of invited guests from the National Council of Churches. At the end of the three-hour movie there was hardly, as they say, a...

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Mahatma Ghandi (center), Indian politician, with his granddaughter Mridulaben or Manuben (left) and his grandnephew Kanu’s wife Abhabehn Gandhi (formerly Chatterjee) in Birla House in Delhi – around January 1948. Both Manu and Abha were known as Gandhi...

In much of our discourse we take postures based on a common body of "privately held" information, so naturally when people ask questions, we are taken aback (it cannot be helped that the archives are destroyed so a simple pointer will not suffice). ...