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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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Sanjay Subramanam Anbenum Peruveli is an album that is a result of days of talking, discussing, jamming, recording, remote recording & delivering. It was 11 months back when I approached Sean Roldan with a proposal to do an album of Vallalar songs. It was a project that was conceived & commisioned by Vignesh Sundaresan &…
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ByRamachandra Guha Dec 03, 2017 08:06 PM IST Advani’s yatra of 1990 was aimed explicitly at pitting one group of Indians against another. He has been, without question, the most divisive politician in the history of independent India. The Babri Masjid was demolished 25 years ago this week. Many Indians, this writer among them, viewed…
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There is a stench of shabby calculations in L.K. Advani being awarded the Bharat Ratna. Photo: Government of India/Wikimedia Commons. GODL. Support Us POLITICS03/FEB/2024 In post-independence India, state honours, especially the Padma awards, are designed to acknowledge and salute individual contributions in various walks of life; but the highest honour, a Bharat Ratna, invariably reflects…
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An interview with the author of Sheikh Abdullah’s biography, ‘The Caged Lion of Kashmir’. R Benedito Ferrão Feb 04, 2024 · 01:30 pm As much as it is a political biography of its eponymous subject, Sheikh Abdullah: The Caged Lion of Kashmir is equally revealing of 20th-century India’s transition from a British colony to an independent nation-state.…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “Don’t mourn, organize!” is an expression, abridged from a statement by labor activist and songwriter Joe Hill near the time of his death. Hill wrote the full statement in a telegram he sent to Bill Haywood, which stated, “Goodbye, Bill, I die like a true blue rebel. Don’t waste any time mourning. Organize!” Hill followed that…

