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Courtesy Sh. Raj Thackeray, Maharashtra Navanirman Sena: Why can’t people accept Mumbai if they can accept Thiruvananthapuram and Chennai? If any producer dares to rename this city and refer to it as Bombay, then...
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The Politics of “Identity”
Many of you would remember the controversy surrounding Jaya Bachchan from a few months ago, triggered by a speech she gave in Hindi in Mumbai. Writing about it, Tarun Vijay wrote (emphasis mine): What are...
No longer funny…
A Marathi Manoos’ house is ransacked in Jamshedpur for no other reason except that he belonged to the wrong “state” A 10-year old boy – almost certainly too young to understand what the fuss is...
Do the “ends” justify the “means”?
This thought was prompted by an exchange in the comments section of this post. Courtesy of Acorn, please read and reflect on this extract from a speech by the Honourable Dr. B.R. Ambedkar on...
After Maharashtra, it is the turn of West Bengal
From “CPM Minister’s remarks trigger protests in Rajasthan” “…Insulting remarks against Rajasthanis in general and Marwaris in particular attributed to Abdur Rezzak Mollah, Land and Land Reforms Minister in West Bengal, have evoked a...
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