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‘Majority only worried about their bread, money’
The outcome of the Gujarat elections was supposed to be a foregone conclusion. Everybody, it was said, was eager to forget the post-Godhra pogrom, which is why the Tehelka expose …
1,198 random words on how far we have come
“Angry when hungry”, AMAR NARAYAN doesn’t know who shot this photograph or when. He isn’t even sure if it’s a genuine picture or a photoshopped frame. *** Let’s assume that …
You are nothing if you can’t whip up a nice riot
PRATAP BHANU MEHTA in The Indian Express: “In Karnataka, four books, including the Sahitya Academy-nominated novel Dharamkaarana, have been banned in recent years because Lingayat followers of Virshaivism, assert their …
And how the legal system screwed up on Bhopal
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore (part two of a series on the Bhopal gas tragedy): Remember the stand taken by the Indian Government before the New York district court regarding …