L K Sharma has followed no profession other than journalism for more than four decades, covering criminals and prime ministers. Was the European Correspondent of The Times of India based in London for a decade. Reported for five years from Washington as the Foreign Editor of the Deccan Herald. Edited three volumes on innovations in India. He has completed a work of creative nonfiction on V. S. Naipaul His two e-books The Twain and A Parliamentary Affair form part of The Englandia Quartet.
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Published in: openIndiaGood Bye, Gandhi!Writing on Gandhi in an India stricken by faux patriotism and jingoism causes gloom. A poem in Indian English provides an antidote.
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Published in: openIndiaHyper-extremism tends to follow extremismThe Hindutva storm-troopers would feel let down, having been trained to abuse the secular Hindus, liberals, intellectuals, dissenting writers and a minority community.
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Published in: openIndiaNaipaul: an abandoned child looks and relooks at the motherlandNaipaul always felt that his books would stand the test of time. But which of his books on India, after multiple visits to his ancestral land, will stand that test?
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Published in: openIndiaDemocracy eats its parents!"If a principled yet powerful leader does emerge, he can only come from yesterday’s disempowered classes."
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Published in: openIndiaSubverting democracy without vote-riggingRecent events in some prominent democratic nations have highlighted the internal threats that are hard to see and even harder to counter. A military dictator can be identified.
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Published in: openIndiaGod votes in India, abstains in Britain, Part IIUnlike in India, British democracy, distorted by Mammon, is spared by God.