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‘Hindus make bad devotees, but are good clients’
Dipankar Gupta, senior fellow at the Nehru memorial museum and library, on the thin crowds around Baba Ramdev after the midnight eviction from Ram Lila grounds in Delhi, in Mail …
‘Gujarat was vibrant long before Narendra Modi’
“A lie repeated many times becomes the Truth” in the modern age sans any media scrutiny. So, it follows that milk and honey, and power and water flow in Gujarat …
Eight-and-a-half lessons from trust vote tamasha
1) Before the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement (not “deal”, as Pranab Mukherjee pointed out) lights up a single 60-watt bulb, it has caused a tectonic change in our politics. There …
‘At least tabloids connect with our little lives’
Dipankar Gupta, professor in sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University, in Mail Today: “I would rather go for low-brow tabloids any day. At least they address matters that concern us and …
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