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    View: There is no national honour without every Indian being enabled to live with dignity

    India’s tryst with honour lies in ending poverty and ignorance and disease and inequality of opportunity, in ending sectarian politics and creating broad-based growth that enriches the lives of all Indians.

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    Multilateral and bilateral diplomacy must be deployed to create the space India needs.

    One episode in the Mahabharata is relevant today when retired-generals-turned-TV-warriors bristle with righteous anger at China’s perfidy and urge redemption of national honour at any cost.The Kauravas built a house of lac for the Pandavas to live in while on an extended excursion to a forest region.The idea was that the Pandavas would perish in an incendiary accident. Vidura, wise man and uncle to both the Pandavas and the Kauravas, had a
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