“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana,
The Life of Reason
Despite a nearly unanimous chorus of opinion polls predicting a massive victory for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, President Donald Trump mounted a spirited fightback, highlighting a deep divide between a rural America and an urban America, a deeply religious America and a worldly America, an angry America and a kinder America — a Trump America and a Never-Trump America.
For four years the Democrats refused to believe that Donald Trump’s victory in 2016 was real. He could not be their president. If the young had just voted. If the Russians had not interfered. If people just had not hated Hillary Clinton so much. If everyone had only realised who Trump was, the belief went, they would have resoundingly rejected him and his style. They counted the hours until the day Trump would know that this would be the day he was kicked out.
The Democrats looked at the opinion polls and thought of a Biden landslide. There would be control of the senate and an expanded majority in the house of representatives. The Democratic strategy was to get maximum people to vote under the theory that the more the people voted, the more they would repudiate Trump and Trumpism. They took Hispanics and African Americans for granted. Surprisingly, the Democrats also had the money advantage. Trump had blown a billion dollars in early (and questionable) campaign expenditures, so he was short of cash. Biden held a $100 million-plus advantage.
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William Dalrymple goes further back
Indian readers have long known William Dalrymple as the chronicler nonpareil of India in the early years of the British raj. His latest book, The Golden Road, is a striking departure, since it takes him to a period from about the third century BC to the 12th-13th centuries CE.
The bleat from the street
What with all the apps delivering straight to one’s doorstep, the supermarkets, the food halls and even the occasional (super-expensive) pop-up thela (cart) offering the woke from field-to-fork option, the good old veggie-market/mandi has fallen off my regular beat.
Courage and conviction
Justice A.M. Ahmadi's biography by his granddaughter brings out behind-the-scenes tension in the Supreme Court as it dealt with the Babri Masjid demolition case
EPIC ENTERPRISE
Gowri Ramnarayan's translation of Ponniyin Selvan brings a fresh perspective to her grandfather's magnum opus
Upgrade your jeans
If you don’t live in the top four-five northern states of India, winter means little else than a pair of jeans. I live in Mumbai, where only mad people wear jeans throughout the year. High temperatures and extreme levels of humidity ensure we go to work in mulmul salwars, cotton pants, or, if you are lucky like me, wear shorts every day.
Garden by the sea
When Kozhikode beach became a fertile ground for ideas with Manorama Hortus
RECRUITERS SPEAK
Industry requirements and selection criteria of management graduates
MORAL COMPASS
The need to infuse ethics into India's MBA landscape
B-SCHOOLS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT INDIAN ECONOMY IS GOING TO WITNESS A TREMENDOUS GROWTH
INTERVIEW - Prof DEBASHIS CHATTERJEE, director, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
COURSE CORRECTION
India's best b-schools are navigating tumultuous times. Hurdles include lower salaries offered to their graduates and students misusing AI
