ANTARA HALDAR
In his now-famous speech to this year's gathering of global elites in Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rightly drew on a key insight from the late Václav Havel. Institutions fall first in the realm of belief, when people begin abandoning their assigned roles in legitimizing rituals.
When the late playwright Tom Stoppard’s Rock ‘n’ Roll first opened 20 years ago, it was deeply personal for me as a student at Cambridge studying film in Prague. A meditation on the clash between communism and capitalism in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), it dwelt on the confrontation between high theory and lived reality in a way that moved me profoundly. Two decades later, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent speech in Davos felt like the sequel.
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