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My daughter was writing an article on ‘discrimination and exclusion’ for her school project. She showed me a photograph of a black young girl escorted by several burly white police officers while …

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The Attari - Wagah border ceremony on the Indian side should be visited by every Indian at least once. It is a mirror to the idea of what the idea of India has become today and tells us why despite so …

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Shri Mohan Bhagwat has stirred a hornet’s nest by comparing Hindus to a lion in his speech at World Hindu Congress held in Chicago. To be fair to him, he did not exactly say that. He only gave an …

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Motihari is a non-descript town nearly five hours by road from Patna, the capital of Bihar. It is near the border with Nepal, the border being just hardly fifty kilometers away. The road is dusty and …

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Every year, on 15th August the Tricolor is hoisted by our Prime Minister from the ramparts of the Red Fort. It is an annual ritual telecast live every year in our living rooms and has been for so long …

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Death by a thousand cuts to bleed your enemy till he is finished is a time-honoured tactic of guerillas from all over the world against an enemy whom they don’t want to face and can’t defeat in a …

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