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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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  • How the middle class will play the hero in India’s rise as world power

    SECTIONS How the middle class will play the hero in India’s rise as world power ET OnlineLast Updated: Jul 09, 2023, 12:30:00 PM IST Synopsis Imagine desi companies easily growing into global biggies supported by vast domestic scale. Growing disposable incomes, along with the rise of the middle class, will make India a consumption powerhouse.…

  • TheLiverDoc

     The Indian Government recently issued a safety alert on one of the safest anti-inflammatory drugs, mefenamic acid based on one of the rarest side-effects, virtually unrecorded by Indian pharmacovigilance. In this brilliant article, @verma_shivani12 reports for @TheKenWeb on why this alert was illogical, irrational, fearmongering and…just weird. With inputs from me (based on my…

  • India-Maldives row: President Mohamed Muizzu signs 20 agreements with China, including tourism co-operation

    2 min read 10 Jan 2024, 10:01 PM ISTJoin us Written By Saurav Mukherjee Regarded as a pro-China leader, Muizzu is visiting China amid tensions with India over derogatory remarks against Prime Minister Modi that led to a spate of cancellations of reservations by Indian tourists. Amid a diplomatic row with India over derogatory remarks by his…

  • Blinken’s Window Dressing Tour of Arab Capitals

    M.K. Bhadrakumar | 10 Jan 2024 The Arab psyche is convinced that an enduring final settlement of the Palestine problem cannot be postponed indefinitely. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (R) met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in AlUla, January 8, 2023 The expectation raised by the United States in allowing a UN Security Council…

  • RAM’S AYODHYA: VIVEK KUMAR

    02/01/2024 NIVEDITA MENON 15 COMMENTS Guest post by VIVEK KUMAR (Translated by Nivedita Menon from a widely circulating post earlier attributed to Saroj Mishra, on social media, originally in Hindi. UPDATE: We have since heard from the author himself. This post was written in 2010 by VIVEK KUMAR (Vivek Asri) and so we have made the necessary…

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