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Indian General Elections of 2024 and the narratives!
Finally after ten long years of fascism and dictatorship the democracy in India has risen from the ashes like phoenix. It was dead for the last ten years. There wasn’t a day in the last ten years when this monotonous rhetoric didn’t resonate in the so-called elite and intellectual circles in the country. The Indian…
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Interesting “Tandav” challenges the conventional entertainment in India
Since the recently released web series Tandav made a lot of news in the past few days, I decided to binge watch it and see for myself as to what is so tandav worthy in the show. The reviews about the web series that I saw before, no matter which website I chose, were bad,…
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India Defeated: IPL 2020
India’s prestigious Indian Premier League (IPL 2020) is about to end and there would very soon be a winner. Or perhaps, by the time this article reaches your eyes, it has already ended. However, even before the very first delivery was delivered, the winner as well as the loser for this year’s IPL season were…
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Is Nepotism in Bollywood a genuine problem or a propaganda to hide something?
As soon as the news about untimely demise of actor Sushant Singh Rajput broke out, Nepotism once again became a hot topic. No matter which platform I looked at, be it Twitter or Facebook or even mainstream media portals, I can find a lot of anger, hatred directed towards certain celebrities. Is it justified? Is…
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Farmers’ woes Part 1: Irrigation and Transportation
The place was humongous. The ground was uneven, trees and plants were planted randomly. Since, it was a full moon, it was not completely dark. But it looked scary, the shrubs, the bushes and their shadows looked like ghosts. At the extreme left, the ground was slightly more even compared to the rest. A light…
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Frog in the boiling water!!! – Dying Hinduism
The other day, an old fable about the boiling frog came to my mind. Lets suppose you have a pot with tepid water. If you put a frog in it, it might stay in it. If it stays, you could turn the knob and start heating the water, but very-very-slowly, you would notice that the…
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Entangled Kashmir: A web of poor and selfish decisions
Which among the two (A. Indian National Congress or B. Bhartiya Janta Party) can solve the Kashmir problem? Like it or not, you are going to answer this question in less than six months. If you vote you choose the answer consciously, if you don’t vote or use NOTA, you choose. But you choose unconsciously!…
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Hinduism: A persecuted religion (Sabarimala)
Can there be a religion without god or places of worship? Of course! You can be like an intellectual or modern secular Hindu and say God lives in your heart and you don’t need a separate place, hence could decimate the idea of temples. Why this question? And why now? Past few months I have…
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