Mitali Saran

Office and institution are only as good as the people who occupy them, and they do not inherit respect; they must constantly earn it. Vigilance and straight talk will make us a better country.

Dasgupta frames this anti-lynching protest as an expression of aesthetic more than moral outrage. This is presumably because "aesthetic" can be dismissed as a slighter, more frivolous philosophical obsession, confined to those few rich enough to have time and space for such minor preoccupations.

He unpacks that story along with a suitcase that is filled with mementos. He does it with plenty of laughs, from the travails of courtship to his life as a comedian.

Images of tragedy and violence should offend only our sense of natural justice.

Office and institution are only as good as the people who occupy them, and they do not inherit respect; they must constantly earn it. Vigilance and straight talk will make us a better country.

Dasgupta frames this anti-lynching protest as an expression of aesthetic more than moral outrage. This is presumably because "aesthetic" can be dismissed as a slighter, more frivolous philosophical obsession, confined to those few rich enough to have time and space for such minor preoccupations.

He unpacks that story along with a suitcase that is filled with mementos. He does it with plenty of laughs, from the travails of courtship to his life as a comedian.

Images of tragedy and violence should offend only our sense of natural justice.