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The West and its ugly track record SIR, ~ Apropos SoumitroDassarticle, Wealthand Greatness, it is apparent that the writer is so mesmerized of the West that he can ignore its track record of racism, genocide, slavery and colonial exploitation. Some of these aberrations are still manifest, if in newer forms. Nevertheless, the unqualified freedom of speech and expression in the West is not a unique distinction. The majority of people in this country are also sufficiently tolerant, but the restrictions on speech and expression are often driven by the anxiety to appease minorities. Even such a strongly provocative and entirely gratuitous Rama does not exist circular of UPA-I did not meet …