These pictures (perhaps) show why President Mukherjee opted out of Sri Sri Ravishanker's mega event
Not just environment regulations were flouted. Reports also point to army personnel being deployed to help construct pontoon bridges on the river Yamuna. Read more here.
50 years ago today, Indira Gandhi got the Indian Air Force to bomb its own people
The attempt to quell an uprising left deep scars on the collective memory of Mizoram, and led to an insurgency that lasted 20 years. Read more here.
Kanhaiya Kumar has shown that the government is only for BJP supporters – and against everyone else
With his fierce public rebuke of the prime minister, the JNU student leader has shattered the belief that Narendra Modi is to be held in fear. Read more here.
'Did you check your facts?': Makarand Paranjape has some questions for Kanhaiya, Leftists and JNU
In the on-going series of teach-in lectures on nationalism, the professor asked if JNU was a 'democratic space' or a 'Left hegemonic space' and why Leftists had trouble accepting the 'legitimacy of the Indian state'. Read more here.
What Anupam Kher doesn't understand about Modi's simplistic chaiwallah origin story
That election jumla is long past its sell-by date. Read more here.
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