For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
Now a new name is on the list of war atrocities: Hanoi - Christmas 1972.
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
It was the first clear failure in our history.
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.