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virtue. It can be both, a boon and a curse - depending on the circumstances two sides of the same coin. Nationalism tends to be negative when people confront each other along the lines of national divisions; it can be productive enough when social divisions and hostilities tend to be based on other identities, such as religion, community or ethnicity. Central to understanding the contingent variability of the role of nationalism is the need to see nationality as one identity among many that we all have.</p> </div><ul class="links inline"><li><a href="/journal/2008/07/perspectives/nationalism-boon-or-curse.html" rel="tag" title="Is Nationalism a Boon or a Curse?" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Is Nationalism a Boon or a Curse?</span></a></li></ul> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"> <article data-history-node-id="65980" class="node node--type-epw-article node--view-mode-teaser"> <h2> <a href="/journal/2006/47/special-articles/our-past-and-our-present.html" rel="bookmark"> <span>Our Past and Our Present</span> </a> </h2> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-journal field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="/journal/2006/47" hreflang="en">Vol. 41, Issue No. 47, 25 Nov, 2006</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-authors field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/author/amartya-sen" hreflang="en">Amartya Sen</a></div> </div> <div class='article_summary'>India's past has become an ideological battleground. The central issue in this battle is not the invoking of the past, but precisely how the past is brought into discussions about the present. Related to this basic inquiry is the subsidiary question: does the acknowledgement of the continuing relevance of the past imply that "the distant past must guide how one acts in the present"? The recognition of the relevance of the past must be distinguished from the case for being guided by the past in a choice-independent way. It is important to recognise that the significance of the past for us today involves selection and choice in which our contemporary concerns can have a reasonable role. It is also important to see that this connection between the present and our involvement with the past neither undermines the need to look for veracity and ascertained evidence nor removes the case for deliberately concentrating on those cases in which the lessons involved have particular relevance to our concerns today. The problem of selections from the past involves, in this sense, both epistemology and practical reason.</div><ul class="links inline"><li><a href="/journal/2006/47/special-articles/our-past-and-our-present.html" rel="tag" title="Our Past and Our Present" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Our Past and Our Present</span></a></li></ul> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"> <article data-history-node-id="65758" class="node node--type-epw-article node--view-mode-teaser"> <h2> <a href="/journal/2005/19/special-articles/three-rs-reform.html" rel="bookmark"> <span>The Three R's of Reform</span> </a> </h2> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-journal field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="/journal/2005/19" hreflang="en">Vol. 40, Issue No. 19, 07 May, 2005</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-authors field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/author/amartya-sen" hreflang="en">Amartya Sen</a></div> </div> <div class='article_summary'></div><ul class="links inline"><li><a href="/journal/2005/19/special-articles/three-rs-reform.html" rel="tag" title="The Three R's of Reform" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about The Three R's of Reform</span></a></li></ul> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"> <article data-history-node-id="45925" class="node node--type-epw-article node--view-mode-teaser"> <h2> <a href="/journal/1983/19-20-21/annual-number-specials/malnutrition-rural-children-and-sex-bias.html" rel="bookmark"> <span> Malnutrition of Rural Children and the Sex Bias</span> </a> </h2> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-journal field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="/journal/1983/19-20-21" hreflang="en">Vol. 18, Issue No. 19-20-21, 21 May, 1983</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-authors field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/author/amartya-sen" hreflang="en">Amartya Sen</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/author/sunil-sengupta" hreflang="en">Sunil Sengupta</a></div> </div> <div class='article_summary'></div><ul class="links inline"><li><a href="/journal/1983/19-20-21/annual-number-specials/malnutrition-rural-children-and-sex-bias.html" rel="tag" title=" Malnutrition of Rural Children and the Sex Bias" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about Malnutrition of Rural Children and the Sex Bias</span></a></li></ul> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"> <article data-history-node-id="46029" class="node node--type-epw-article node--view-mode-teaser"> <h2> <a href="/journal/1983/14/discussion/sau-s-revisit.html" rel="bookmark"> <span> On Sau s Revisit</span> </a> </h2> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-journal field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="/journal/1983/14" hreflang="en">Vol. 18, Issue No. 14, 02 Apr, 1983</a></div> <div class="field field--name-field-authors field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/author/amartya-sen" hreflang="en">Amartya Sen</a></div> </div> <div class='article_summary'></div><ul class="links inline"><li><a href="/journal/1983/14/discussion/sau-s-revisit.html" rel="tag" title=" On Sau s Revisit" hreflang="en">Read more<span class="visually-hidden"> about On Sau s Revisit</span></a></li></ul> </div> </article> </div> <div class="views-row"> <article data-history-node-id="69018" class="node node--type-epw-article node--view-mode-teaser"> <h2> <a href="/journal/1983/7/discussion/india-doing-and-undoing.html" rel="bookmark"> <span> India The Doing and the Undoing</span> </a> </h2> <div class="node__content"> <div class="field field--name-field-journal field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"><a href="/journal/1983/7" 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