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The desecularisation of Hindu festivals is a compulsion now
Culture

The desecularisation of Hindu festivals is a compulsion now

This is it. I can’t take it anymore. Celebrating Holi by standing on the walls of a temple at Assi Ghat, Varanasi, while smoking and dancing on obscene songs, calling girl dancers who were not just dancing — but making vulgar and sexual actions at a festival so rooted in bhakti was just disgusting.   Let […]

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Right to life seems to be out for a toss
Law

Right to life seems to be out for a toss

Last month, I was attending the second day of the Delhi University Literature Festival with my junior when a frantic call shattered the afternoon. Over the call, he was told that a friend of his, whom he had known since his undergrad days, Ruchi Tiwari, a journalist by profession, was being lynched in broad daylight […]

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