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Not long ago, Muslims and schemes for Muslims would be high points of election speeches of mainstream political parties. Not a word now. Not a word.
...Full Story#Twitterban trended on Twitter as Koo-getters trashed Twitter on Twitter because trashing something on Twitter is still something trashing something on Koo is yet to be.
...Full StoryWe have fought multinationals, economic liberalisation and today a large number of us are fighting the farm laws, with the belief that the laws will ultimately make paupers out of us poor farmers.
...Full StoryWhile the people on the right side of things could clang utensils for a cause, those on the left have had little causeful days in the corona times. Ideology needs the oxygen of a grievance. It came in tractor trollies to Singhu border.
...Full StoryJewellery is the crassest form of consumerism. Tanishq sells ornaments, stuff symbolising riches, not value.
...Full StoryDr Kafeel Khan has been an icon of resistance since his imprisonment. The man had neither an ideology nor a grievance worthy of making him an icon. Today he has both and worth their weight in gold.
...Full StoryTo begin with, Rahul Gandhi has to become party president instead of just exercising power without accountability.
...Full StoryOur communities have not gone through the drill of fighting SARS viruses and the utter lack of community health centres has made community spread impossible. To acknowledge, that is.
...Full StoryThere's schadenfreude among Sachin Pilot's so-called friends when Ashok Gehlot hoots him for being a handsome, English-speaking lightweight as if only age and treachery have substance.
...Full StoryBrahmins of UP have been nursing a perceived wound since 2017 on an ideological plain. Vikas Dubey’s encounter that looked like a murder by the state, has given that ideology a grievance.
...Full StoryHagia Sophia is back to being a mosque effective July 11. It is no longer a museum as Kemal Ataturk, the father of Modern Turkey, wished it.
...Full StoryThere are two pictures running in our minds on Vikas Dubey's encounter. One is as told by the police. The other is a piece of fiction which will likely be used by the web series already being scripted.
...Full StoryUttar Pradesh, and Bihar, need to deny its youth the opportunity to become a Vikas Dubey. The society needs to block the Road to Robinhood.
...Full StoryIf you can have homeopathy, you can have Coronil too.
...Full StoryGrammar Nazis are passé, now we have a posse of Woke Nannies correcting what we say.
...Full StoryPakistan’s mighty military and eulogised spy agencies seem to have less on Cynthia D Ritchie than she has on them.
...Full StoryA high viral load of coronavirus kills. The corona information overload is debilitating to our sanity. To complicate things, some of that information is viral.
...Full StoryThe white-caller crimes have led to black Americans having to defend their presence in public places. This goes beyond racial discrimination.
...Full StoryThis is not about the crash. This is about our societies.
...Full StoryOur focus state today is a thin sliver of land kissing the Arabian Sea, the land of Chera, Kerala.
...Full StoryWhen a Mumbai train bound for Chhapra in the North ends up in Bengaluru in the South or a train set on a journey to Gorakhpur reaches Rourkela in Odisha, who has lost the way?
...Full StoryWhile you will remember what happened to them, they have already moved on. Sab yaad rakha jaayega is a poetic line for middle-class soirees.
...Full StoryWe are not short on sympathy. We just do not have empathy. We cannot put ourselves in the shoes cut out of a Bisleri bottle split in halves and walk 1,100 kilometres in them.
...Full StoryMake people feel at home by taking whatever they are left with, including hope.
...Full StoryThe shock that Indians received seeing Deepika Chikhalia in short clothes is now experienced by Pakistanis who see Esra Bilgiç in a two-piece, fixing her hair in the open, on the beach.
...Full StoryYou want privacy? The mighty invisible predator doesn’t care about privacy. It will eat you. No bracelet, no protection you get. This is for your own protection. This is the rule of the jungle.
...Full StoryWe need to follow Mr Musk and begin naming children in a way that makes obsolete what should have been obsolete long, long ago.
...Full StoryIndians have once again shown they can do anything for their country or even Indian-made foreign liquor (IMFL).
...Full StoryThe government masterstroke of opening liquor shops is expected to neutralise the opposition offensive of offering free tickets to travel home.
...Full StoryDoing things you like in this life is sin and doing things you may get in another is a virtue. The virus, however, doesn't care about anything.
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