A dissection of the death of an idea that played out on primetime TV.
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It has been a favourite playground for governments in power. And this tradition has endured…
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'All majoritarian groups feel emboldened. Many fascist groups in the nation desire to suppress free thought and expression. Thiruchencode has become a laboratory. What happens here will affect writers across the nation.'
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And now a protest and bandh in Tiruchengode, in Western Tamil Nadu, against a 2010 novel, set a century back, about consensual sex outside of marriage
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As verdict 2013 rolls out, what has the broom, that has mauled the waving hand and stopped the lotus from completely blooming, achieved in Delhi?
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The Prasar Bharati CEO shoots off an angry, no-holds-barred letter to the I&B minister Manish Tewari, telling him where he gets off
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Much din has been created about the I&B ministry's directive to shift the telecast of <i>The Dirty Picture </i> from 12 noon to after 11 pm. Perhaps it's time for a little perspective.
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Despite impoverishment beyond imagination, caste and religion are strong emotive factors here that the issue of development will find difficult to dislodge
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'Once they come to power they will behave responsibly,' he says. 'People don't really mean what they say during elections...'
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Soul searching? Hardly. The "emergency protocol" that some news channels rolled out in a hurry is just a pithy reconstruction of a code that the government itself had put together two years ago. Why the hysteria then? And why the hurried embrace now?
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