Both Hitch and Havel, the philosopher and the polemicist, defied the dead certainties of ideology with the power of ideas. Ideas of freedom. Between the piercing arguments of these heavy smokers, gods and their missionaries, belonging to religion as well as ideology, lost their halo-and even their kingdoms. It is a lesser world without their questioning gaze.
ISSUE DATE: Jan 2, 2012 | UPDATED: Dec 31, 2011 12:39 IST