Varghese K George
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Resident Editor, Delhi @the_hindu . Curates Political Line newsletter. Author: Open Embrace- India-US ties in a Divided World; DU, JNU. ||चरैवेति, चरैवेति
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What is America First and how/why will
@JoeBiden
carry it forward? What is the Hindutva Strategic Doctrine and how is it reshaping Indian foreign policy? I discuss these questions in the revised and updated edition of Open Embrace. On preorder now
How much will really be different in Biden's America? And how will it impact India's ties with the US? Out soon,
@vargheseKgeorge
's updated edition of
#OpenEmbrace
@PenguinIndia
#Biden
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God save us. Inside the centrally air conditioned
@ManipalHealth
Hospital in Dwarka, accompanying a patient with breathing trouble.
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Kerala records crimes, crime rate is high. Kerala records accidents, accident rate is high. Kerala records suicides, suicide rate is high. Kerala records crimes against women, the rate is high. And yes, Kerala records Covid infections too…and in Kerala people question govt.
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“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”
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So if a Malayali nurse falls ill in Delhi and has none of those NPR-inspired list of documents to prove Delhi residency, s/he is supposed to just die, is it?
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Who actually were the geniuses who advised .
@RahulGandhi
to give his first interview to Arnab Goswami in 2013? Are they still his advisors?
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Responsible drinking has a new meaning. Malayalis queuing up to buy alcohol.
#COVID2019india
#Kerala
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Passengers must be strictly barred from playing audio files without private ear sets at airports and planes. Making noise in planes and at airports using gadgets must be made a punishable offence. As smoking is. Pls repost if you agree.
@DGCAIndia
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ArvindKejriwal is a Frankenstein’s monster that I regret to have helped; India Against Corruption was propped up by the Sangh Parivar and Kejriwal knew it, says
@pbhushan1
in this interview to
@sardesairajdeep
.
'India Against Corruption' movement was propped up by BJP-RSS for their own political purposes, says
@pbhushan1
#IndiaTodayIndiaTomorrow
Watch full show with
@sardesairajdeep
at
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Is this what they call the Dance of Democracy?
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Experts on everything used to be Bengalis. Now, everyone is an expert on Bengal. Kaliyug.
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@ManipalHealth
Thanks for your kind response. This is nothing specific to me. Right at this moment, you can find dozens of your patients struggling to breathe, and coughing their lungs out at the OPD.
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According to a new study, pressure cooker whistles are the biggest obstacle to digital learning in India.
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Prime minister of the secular Republic of India.
Rahul Gandhi is contesting from a seat that is Hindu minority because they (Congress) are scared of Hindu anger: PM
@narendramodi
in Wardha, Maharashtra |
#May23WithTimesNow
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During these grim days, we must be thankful that Kangana Ranaut is not into data analysis.
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Two Chief Ministers,
@vijayanpinarayi
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@MamataOfficial
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Today is Malayalam New Year - 1st day of the month of Chingam. Happy New Year to fellow Malayalis...
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Purveyors of hate and bigotry who masquerade as journalists, you know who you are, this blood is on all your hands. Smell it. Write that in your annual appraisals. And count your performance bonuses.
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They are all busy asking questions at Narendra Modi’s press conferences perhaps?
Really puzzled why no journalist at any of Rahul Gandhi’s press conferences asks him how Anil Ambani could be given ₹30,000 crores out of a contract that is totally less than ₹60,000 crores. Is this even possible???
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India will not be able to defeat the suicide bomber by turning itself into a lynch mob. That path will take India where Pakistan is today. In .
@the_hindu
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Arnab Goswami is member of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library society; Rajiv Malhotra is JNU visiting professor. Wonder what could be an appropriate post for Sambit Patra going by the same yardstick....
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Hats off to
@PrashantKishor
who predicted it precisely. He acknowledged the strong anti-incumbency but held his ground that the BJP would not cross 100. I thought the BJP would win or lose narrowly.
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In US, citizens can raise Bharat Mata Ki Jai slogans without fear of being arrested for sedition. Many did at
@narendramodi
event today.
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Imtiaz Khan too had dreams, at least of a full stomach. All of 12 years old, he was lynched & hanged from a tree by cow vigilantes in 2016, in Jharkhand. I remember him every day. I remembered him when I voted today. RIP, son. We failed you.
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Anti-incumbency in WB turned out to be against the BJP.
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How to put down a communal conflagration - anytime, anywhere- in 30 minutes? Just ask .
@laluprasadrjd
who governed Bihar for 15 years.
In case lack of capacity is the problem.
@yadavtejashwi
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.
@vijayanpinarayi
and .
@ArvindKejriwal
are turning out to be the best CMs of India in this hour of crisis, for their compassion&efficiency. They also have the best resources.
@ashokgehlot51
@MamataOfficial
@OfficeofUT
and
@Naveen_Odisha
also leading from the front.
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This time , victim is a prominent industrialist. Let’s use this tragic occasion to remember -50 lives are lost to rabies every single day. Numerous poor children are mauled.This can go only in a society that does not value human lives/disregards science.
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Relieved that this pic is not captioned ‘anti-nationals wave the flag of a foreign country in Houston, USA’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi received a warm welcome by the Indian community upon his arrival in Houston where he is scheduled to address at the mega 'Howdy Modi!' event.
Read
@ANI
story |
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For the consumer citizens, Kejriwal became the most reliable delivery boy in their conception of politics as an online marketplace.
This apoliticism was a tenuous claim. Besides his nativism, delivery came wrapped in Hindu symbolism. In .
@the_hindu
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The geniuses in Congress who pushed Jagan Reddy out of the party while simultaneously promoting several useless offsprings of leaders should be specially honoured in the Working Committee today.
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A journalist being rude to a person in authority is a relatively trivial issue, considering the real crisis of Indian journalism which is its obsequious surrender before the powerful while being rude/cruel/unsympathetic to the vulnerable
#PallavBagla
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“They say that I am a Christian in disguise” —Mahatma Gandhi on how Hindu extremists viewed him. (Collected Works, Vol 24)
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Political Line | There is no north vs south. But there is a battle IN the north. If
@RahulGandhi
wants to fight that battle, he needs to be in Uttar Pradesh, not Kerala.
@the_hindu
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Gullible ‘investigative’ reporters who were finding one scam a day could also consider an apology. Or at least admit their gullibility….
#VinodRai
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Stray dogs are a threat to public health and safety. Dogs cannot rule public spaces.
Caught on Camera | Scared of being bitten by stray dogs, a woman rammed her scooty into a car parked on the side of the road in Berhampur city in Odisha. Both women and the child sustained multiple injuries in the incident.
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From 37 % in 2016, now more than 50 % of Kerala’s population opt for Gov hospitals. 900 plus PHCs that are neat/efficient make the difference. My parents got the second dose at one, with much less hassle than I faced at a pvt hospitl in Delhi.
#KeralaModel
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Is this the best explanation that
@ECISVEEP
can give, that too only through sources and not officially? It is revealing though.
1.Last night a polled EVM machine was being taken in Patharkandi Vidhan Sabha, Assam when a crowd intercepted it as car didn't belong to EC. As per sources, EC car had broken down & officials took a lift in a passing car that was later identified as belonging to a BJP candidate.
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Rajiv Gandhi assassination convicts now need a party and a constituency. We can be sure that they will have plenty of options. What a revolting display of Tamil chauvinism! And the strong Indian state let the assassins of a PM walk into freedom and stardom!
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That’s a discovery that we have just made.....
Our oxygen production facilities are largely in the east and central India. So transportation to the whole country quickly is a challenge: Home Ministry
Live:
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The near total, unannounced shutdown of private healthcare leading to countless deaths proves healthcare can be a private business only as much as a nation's defence can be one. Critical patients are being turned away by hospitals that have fleeced them for long..chilling stories
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As long as Indian secularism is championed by those who ridicule others for their inadequate English, its future is doomed. India needs subaltern secularism.
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Just as I was frantically trying to learn data analysis (to figure out what is an optimal GST rate for tawa roti, among other things) satellite image analysis has become the new thing!
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CAB/NRC were foretold 100 years ago & reiterated in 2014 campaign, when NaMo made distinction between "infiltrators"& "refugees." BJP manifesto said India was natural home for Hindus. Hallucinating experts did not see, but THIS was PROMISED. In
@the_hindu
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Freedom is set to become more meaningful for the citizens of the eight sister States, writes Assam CM
@himantabiswa
. Don’t miss
@the_hindu
’s superb special edition on India’s 75th Independence Day.
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I fact-checked Nehru’s ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech. The whole world was NOT sleeping, to begin with.
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Netanyahu says Iranians are celebrating his exit. Sounds familiar?
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The Anna Hazare ‘movement’ was the turning point for the Indian society, now a blood thirsty lynch mob. It legitimised, sanctified and romanticised instant justice. It was a mob crying out to dispense with due process. Politicians took the cue and we are here!
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Those days…when it used to take too many people to achieve even trivial things...
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This needs to stop. Stray dogs are pests killing our children. Dogs must be removed from public places, whatever it takes.
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Morning. Now waiting to hear from ‘objective’ and ‘neutral’ commentators on what Indira Gandhi did to JNU etc...
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Quote of the week: “Ghatia hona ek baat hein. Ghatia hone pe garv karna- yeh badi baat hein”
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“The major portion of my ashes should, however, be disposed of otherwise. I want these to be ...scattered over the fields where the peasants of India toil, so that they might mingle with the dust and soil of India and become an indistinguishable part of India."
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Daughter: This is what you read for parenting tips? Me: Speechless
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“I couldn’t leave him alone in that condition. Other workers in the truck felt he carried the coronavirus, but he was my friend. They refused to call for medical help,” Mr. Mohammad recalled. In
@the_hindu
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The liberal assumption of a negative correlation between scientific rationality and bigotry is largely baseless. To test, ask the best educated Indian that you know - an IIT-IIM grad possibly - his opinion on caste, minorities, Dalits and gender.
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Easter Day thoughts on personal finance. If only my ancestors had not hurried to salvation centuries ago. My soul would have been worth Rs 300 crore today.
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It is not that expertise does not matter —it is dangerous to run a country ignoring expert knowledge. But the opposite of junking expertise is not surrendering to expertise. In
@the_hindu
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No prize for guessing what will be
@ArvindKejriwal
’s position on Ram Temple in Ayodhya when it will be announced soon.
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It is good that some of us are talking about how developed countries treat their departed. Each death is accounted for, with reasons. Let us also do that rather than pontificate on the sanctity of the pyre.
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A tale of two temples, and two countries: Bangladesh celebrated the renovation of a temple for Hindu MINORITY; India, one for Hindu MAJORITY, this week.
@TelanganaCMO
KCR &
@ArvindKejriwal
compete with
@MamataOfficial
to emerge as Opposition lead in 2024. PLUS Federalism Tract
In this week's Political Line,
@vargheseKgeorge
explains how the inauguration of
#KashiVishwanathTemple
in Varanasi and Sri Ramna Kali Mandir in
#Dhaka
shows two different stories of neighbours.
Here's a preview:
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Going through some old pictures on phone, came across this. 2013. Oval Office. A different era. A different idea of leadership.
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A society that elects lawmakers who call for public lynching of rapists inevitably produces rapists and criminals at a high rate.
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Globalisation is when
@ShashiTharoor
who used to discuss global politics with world leaders is now explaining himself to village level minions of
@INCIndia
in Kerala. (original in Malayalam, creator unknown).
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Veena George, the new Health Minister of Kerala, is a CPI (M) nominee. Notable that she took oath in the name of god.
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“We always lived in fear of our girls getting dragged into the millet fields,” says father of the Dalit victim. Upper caste perpetrators say they don’t “touch these low lives,” an argument often used to deny the existence of sexual violence against Dalits
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Regardless of what you may have already read on WB, this is mind-blowing. This is not to be missed. By
@Roshanjnu
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NaMo does a Priyanka Gandhi in first campaign speech, first line.... "Beheno aur bhaiyo......"
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Moving story of AIIMS Doc who put his life at risk to save another, by
@BShajan
in
@the_hindu
'My father called..and said even if I were to die from COVID-19, he would not grieve...as I may die a martyr.' Hope Zahid A Majeed remains safe/ tested -ve soon.
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The contest between
@realDonaldTrump
&
@JoeBiden
now looks like
@RahulGandhi
vs
@narendramodi
before Pulwama in ‘19. Observers such as
@mahbubani_k
fear an incident in South China Sea before Nov, considering the rising US-China tensions. If so, it will be Bye Bye Biden.
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There will be no cry for any investigation....
Body of 48-year-old man, who lost his job in March, found hanging at his home in Uttar Pradesh's Noida: Police
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The worst abuse in the Hindutva masterclass is to call someone a Muslim appeaser & this is not the first time Modi himself is being accused of being one....A strand within the anti-Modi digital mob is also rooting for U.P. CM Yogi Adityanath In
@the_hindu
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Political Line is a new news letter from
@the_hindu
that I will curate. It will reach you every Friday. Here’s the inaugural one. The eight-point guide to the Assembly polls. Please send your feedback.
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Okie!! So what is the correct news?
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@aniruddhgarg
Any journalist praising any government -BJP Congress or CPIM - is an applicant for such epithets..
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I will be in conversation with
@ShashiTharoor
today at 3 pm in Thiruvananthapuram. ‘Tharoor Glocal’ at Kanakakkunnu Palace,
@mbifl2020
After two intense days in Delhi, featuring the President’s Address to Parliament, a meeting of the Standing Committee on Information Technology (on TRAI) &
@nsitharaman
’s marathon Buget speech, am back in Thiruvananthapuram on constituency duty. Will speak at
@mbifl2020
3pm Sun.
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Are you looking for credible, unbiased political insights on India & beyond? Stay on, and see why
@the_hindu
is the place to look, as I take you through some of our reporting this season. The outcome of 2024 general election did not surprise The Hindu reader. 1/n
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80% of
@instagram
users are between 18-44.
@the_hindu
is 142 years old & continues to increase its popularity among all age groups around the world with its outstanding journalism
@sriramvasan
@peejaygeorge
@abaruah64
@suhasinih
@abaruah64
@vrsrini
@nambath
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Trump fired former FBI director James Comey; Modi removed CBI Director Alok Verma. Comey was investigating Flynn. Verma was investigating Asthana. In US, AG played along. In India CVC played along. Strongman politics is changing the oldest and the largest democracies, and how!
Prodded by the Modi-Trump age, ‘Open Embrace’ tries an unconventional approach to understanding India-US ties. Many thanks to
@swatichopra1
and
@PenguinIndia
for making it happen. It is now ready for pre-order in India.
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20 years ago today, I took the Sampoorna Kranti Express to Patna, as the Bihar correspondent of
@IndianExpress
, thanks to
@unnishanker
@rajkamaljha
@ShekharGupta
The journey continues…and Bihar and its lovely people continue to be part of it.
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Those who feigned outrage over .
@ShashiTharoor
's caution on India turning 'Hindu Pakistan' accuse the SC of overlooking majority sentiments & want to overturn its
#Ayodhya
decision; in Pak, Islamist extremists want the SC to surrender to majority & order
#AsiaBibi
's execution.
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Re-upping, from June 2020.
@ArvindKejriwal
had figured the cocktail that sways politics — a hybrid of left-leaning economic measures and right-leaning cultural flashing.
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While the BJP leadership is holding meetings to galvanise party units in election-going States, the Congress leadership is busy encouraging rebellion against a CM who delivered!
Met the congress President, handed him my letter, appraised him of the situation !
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Goodbye DC...Hello Delhi!! After 3 years of reporting/writing for
@the_hindu
from Washington DC, I return to Delhi. Look forward to working with
@abaruah64
,
@suhasinih
,
@mini_kapoor
,
@nistula
,
@samzsays
and others.. Over to Sriram Lakshman
@slakster
for dispatches from the US.
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@srajagopalan
Perhaps there is a distinction? Pakistan is a declared Islamic country. So IK is PM of Islamic Republic of Pakistan. Indian constitution says it is a secular republic but Sangh says it is Hindu Rashtra. PM Modi has self-identified as a Hindu nationalist. So why do we worry?
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Churches have well maintained buildings across the country that must be offered as quarantine facilities. Large number of people will only need isolation and very basic medical care. Hope National Council of Churches in India and Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India will act.
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‘When you..end up giving stray dogs the same rights as your children, retaliatory attacks on these animals increase because there is no way for people to protect their families physically.’ Stray dogs are a threat a public health, public safety
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Air India order for 470 aircraft from Boeing&Airbus, tax surveys of BBC on the same day. Taken together, this is the terms of engagement that Modi sets with the West — a “Hindutva strategic doctrine” for engagement with the world.
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A new template for reporting - on Opposition leaders only, of course. ‘X did not attend office today, family denies _______buzz.’ Get imaginative. Do they teach this at their journalism school?
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