Seventy years after Nehru's beautiful midnight speech - 'Long years ago we made a tryst with destiny...' - in Indian cities and villages millions survive on less than the bare minimum.
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View full videoLosing the Kashmir narrative to Modi government’s childish kind of triumphalism
Politics | Column | November, 2019
Two video clips I saw on social media last week came as proof for me personally that Article 370......
India's Broken Tryst
It was only after I became an adult that I began to ask questions about that famous "tryst". Why was the speech made in English? Was Nehru just a romantic or a real leader? And did he not know when he talked of the world being asleep at midnight that it was not midnight everywhere?'
Even sixty-seven years after it became a modern nation state, democratic India h...
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