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  • That burning sensation…That burning sensation…

    That burning sensation…

    I wrote this piece last night and then lost it thanks to my own stupid fiddling with the computer. I was too tired to re-write it and thought I would make a fresh attempt next morning. Next morning, by the time I picked up my thread to start with the most recent Jahangirpuri riots in Delhi, things had moved quite rapidly. Five rioters had been charged under the draconian National Security Act and the local administration had moved in to use the latest arsenal in its sling, the bulldozers to demolish supposedly illegal constructions, mainly targeting Muslim homes and parts of the mosque which was at the heart of the violence three days ago. And this happened despite Supreme Court’s order to stay the demolition which continued well over two hours. Till the time one of the few brave political leaders Brinda Karat herself reached the site carrying a copy of the order and stood in front of the rampaging bulldozers. History will indeed also record who were the officials who despite the court order continued this vengeful drive and in full view of television cameras also showing it live. It was a mini Iraq war being telecast live to the homes of millions of supposedly gleeful nationalist homes. Khargone in Madhya Pradesh last week, Delhi today.

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  • Whither Goes Though: The Congress Party and its leadership conundrumWhither Goes Though: The Congress Party and its leadership conundrum

    Whither Goes Though: The Congress Party and its leadership conundrum

    ‘Ek chavanni chandi ki, Jai bol Mahatma Gandhi ki’. I came across this fascinating slogan in the modern Hindi classic Raag Darbari, though quoted ironically in a different context, in a novel set in the late 1960s post-independence India. My search for the origins of this slogan led me to the Non-Cooperation Movement of 1920-21, which established the Indian National Congress firmly as a mass party of Indians for the first time and Gandhi, its undisputed leader. It was Gandhi who formulated and went ahead with the public call of boycotting British goods and institutions (among other things) till the time Britishers agreed to home rule and atoned for the atrocities committed in the wake of recently passed draconian Rowlatt Act.

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  • The callThe call

    The call

    Last night the phone rang again,

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  • कछुएकछुए

    कछुए

    कछुए

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  • My Ten Days of Vipassana My Ten Days of Vipassana

    My Ten Days of Vipassana

    My 10 days of Vipassana: A silver bullet with (a silencer) to put you out of your misery..

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