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Claustropolis: 1984
“Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…
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Did you sing this as a kid. It explains below, where this song came from. This old man he played one He played nick nack on my drum With a nick nack paddy whack Give a dog a bone This old man came rolling home This old man he played two He played nick nack…
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Suman Damera A protest march demanding justice for Dalits of Laxmipeta in Andhra Pradesh. Photo: Facebook. 13/Jun/2024 5 min read The bloody incident claimed the lives of five Dalit men and left over 40 people severely injured. The scale of violence unleashed in Laxmipeta was on par with Karamchedu (1985) and Tsunduru (1991) caste atrocities,…
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Siddhartha Deb 10 hours ago 5 min read ‘I saw how the media can just excavate you and leave a shell behind. And I was lucky to learn from that. So when my turn came, the barricades were up.’ Arundhati Roy at the Press Club of India on October 4. Photo: The Wire Excerpted with…
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The industry in the region employs lakhs of Kashmiris but the lack of standardisation lowers the international market value of the product. Hirra Azmat Jun 14, 2024 · 07:30 pm Cricket was introduced to India over a century ago and as the game grew in the country, it led to the emergence of the cricket…
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In his narcissism, Modi is worlds removed from the prime ministers who had run coalition governments before him. Ramachandra Guha 10 hours ago In a piece published in these pages on July 1, 2023 – almost exactly a year ago – I wrote that while I had once harboured large ambitions for the renewal of…
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