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Politics | Column | January, 2019
A conversation I had with Sanskrit students at Banaras Hindu University in 2014 came back to me as I listened to last week’s quota debate in Parliament. It took place just before Narendra Modi announced that he would be contesting from Banaras. The election campaign had begun and ripples of the Modi wave floated into the dusty corridors of the University’s Sanskrit department. It was in one......
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?'
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