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Graffiti turned 8 today!

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Graffiti turned 8 today!

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A summer in bangalore.

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From the media

Syrian forces have bombarded rebel held Eastern Ghouta, in Damascus. BBC reports that dozens of civilians including children have been killed. It says in its report that at least 98 people have been killed on Monday of which 23 are children. The BBC citing Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London based human rights group says the bombardment left 470 people injured, some critically. Almost…

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Graffiti isn't dead...yet!

Graffiti isn’t dead…yet!

Dear Reader,

After being in coma for a long time, technology has resurrected Graffiti. I am able to create posts on the large screen, at last. Much has happened in the interim. Brexit has become a messy divorce. Trump has gained notoriety, although he has been able to push through some legislation that is going to have far reaching impact on the US and global economy. India, despite failings on…

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Fifth Column: Speak up, Prime Minister

Hate crimes have become so routine since the lynching of Mohammad Akhlaq two years ago that the death of Afrazul barely found mention in the next morning’s newspapers.

TAVLEEN SINGH

  | DECEMBER 10 2017

Last Thursday when that video of Afrazul being attacked with an axe and burned alive in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand went viral on social media, the Chief Minister tweeted a picture of herself…

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Jest the elections

Drama is dharma in Indian politics. Look at the war of words the current elections in Gujarat have become. The old throne and the new throne – if you are not with me on this one just let me make it clearer – the old throne refers to the Gandhis’ represented by Rahul. And the new throne is of course the BJP represented by our beloved Modiji. The question is will this election bring us closer to a…

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Telescope: Blame it on Babur

For some, the demolition of the mosque was his fault. And Rahul is Aurangzeb.

SHILAJA BAJPAI | DECEMBER 07 2017

December 6 is a day many remember as the day 25 years ago when the Babri Masjid was flattened by kar sevaks. There was no social media then, no 24×7 in-your-ears-and-face private news channels beaming “exclusive”, literally “breaking news”, of the kar sevaks scampering up the mosque. So…

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India’s plural soul

An assassination, a demolition and a portrait’s unveiling together spelt the polarisation of India

GOPALKRISHNA GANDHI

| DECEMBER 06 2017

The partitioning of India broke us, shamed us. It is estimated that nearly two million were slaughtered during the weeks around Partition, almost no Muslim surviving in East Punjab and no Hindu or Sikh in West Punjab. About 7.5 million Muslims left India for…

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Across the aisle: The sons of the soil of Gujarat

Mr Modi should speak on matters that concern all of India such as farmers’ distress, oppression of Dalits, discrimination against minorities,.. Even during a state election, Mr Narendra Modi should speak as the Prime Minister of India

P CHIDAMBARAM

| DECEMBER 3 2017

The Prime Minister began his election campaign in Bhuj, Gujarat, proclaiming that he was the ‘son of Gujarat’, and warned that any…

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Fifth column: Digital dreaming

What the Prime Minister appears unaware of is that despite his appeals, foreign investors are not exactly lining up at India’s gates to invest in new projects. Could this be because the small things that make a huge difference have not yet changed?

TAVLEEN SINGH

| DECEMBER 3 2013

Narendra Modi has shown more impatience to use technology to transform India than any other prime minister. In his…

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From the media

A mosque in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula was attacked with an explosive device and then sprayed with gun fire as the people were fleeing the mosque. There are reports that more than 230 worshippers were killed. There 109 were wounded, The New York Times reports. This attack has been called the deadliest in Egypt’s modern history. The ruthlessness of the attack has sent shock waves across Egypt.…

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An anniversary of another kind

On November 8 2017, the nation celebrated an anniversary like no other. It was the anniversary of demnetization. Meghnad Desai in his weekly column in Indian Express, Out of My Mind: Keep Changing said that the old currency was not devalued it was converted into Bank deposits. He goes on to say that the total money supply remained unchanged, people on the other hand take it to be a failure of the…

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An anniversary of another kind

On November 8 2017, the nation celebrated an anniversary like no other. It was the anniversary of demnetization. Meghnad Desai in his weekly column in Indian Express, Out of My Mind: Keep Changing said that the old currency was not devalued it was converted into Bank deposits. He goes on to say that the total money supply remained unchanged, people on the other hand take it to be a failure of the…

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Give me strength

The POTUS has said that guns don’t take lives the people do, Only gun lobbyists say those words. Give that argument to the morons in your circle, there are plenty there. How many mothers, daughters and men and boys, women and children would need to die before you take some feeble measure, we know that you are held back by your backers – National Rifle Association. We know that you will never come…

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Another day of shooting

There has been a shooting incidence in Texas. A gun man opened fire at a church killing 26 people and 20 were wounded. The First Baptist Church is located in Sutherland Springs in Wilson County of Texas, the victims were aged 5 to 72. The gun man was found dead in his car some miles away. Police have identified him as a young white male.

According to a report in France24, the gun man was armed…

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The right to vote

An article in The New York Times, “The Right to Vote is Never Safe,” Jon Grinspan, November 04 2017, goes into the history of right to vote in America and points out how the voters can be prevented from voting because of social prejudices – for example if they are Afro-American or impoverished whites. This disenfranchisement need not be institutional, it could be done through extra constitutional…

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