AamJanata – Intellectual Anarchy!

The Constitution is not a charter of servitude

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I'm usually a poet, but my responses to current events and politics often take a more prosaic form. I am also curious about everything. Tell me something new.

Running out of todays

Running out of todays

We're running out of tomorrows, I start to sayAnd then, correcting myself, I sayWe're running out of todaysGive me, I plead, that spare hour nowLet me, I beseech, finish all pending yetThat long-awaited revolution, the unfinished bookThat measure of love as yet unexpressedAll this and more, lest ...

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2 weeks ago

#BijliScam - Is the Indian Public paying an #AdaniTax on Electricity Bills?

#BijliScam – Is the Indian Public paying an #AdaniTax on Electricity Bills?

This article examines @santvarun's tweets summarizing the press briefing by senior INC leader Ajay Maken and connects them with relevant information in the public domain. Three days ago, the UK newspaper, Guardian, made public excerpts of a 97-page show cause notice issued by the Directorate of R...

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2 years ago

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INR 990 crore deducted from farmers’ accounts nationwide without notice

Money deposited in a bank account is generally considered safe. Holders of State Bank of India-issued Kisan Credit Cards (KCCs) have apparently been charged INR 990 each for provision of weather information. Nationwide, one crore one lakh KCC-possessing farmers are seeing deductions totaling INR ...

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2 years ago

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My PayTM Misadventure

At around 830 pm on Monday, Nov. 21, my phone was stolen from me. The incident occurred at the crowded Saket Metro bus stop, while I was inside a feeder bus and the thief outside a window. By the time I could get off the bus and chase him, he had disappeared in the crowd. I looked around for a wh...

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3 years ago

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#Gurugram, and the real lesson from the #Mahabharata – Appropriation is as old as the hills!

Following on from this series of tweets Ever since I heard of the renaming of Gurgaon to Gurugram, it was as if something exploded within me. Naming one metro station “Guru Dronacharya” did not bother me as much – especially since the next one is “Sikanderpur”. (I died mildly, thinking of the iro...

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3 years ago

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A History of, and Response to, Disproportionate Violence

This post began life as an attempt to boost the response to the latest wave of targeted violence and/or State-sponsored suppression of civil liberties in Chhattisgarh. Even as I typed away, trying to summarize the ever-mounting brutality in that state, the news breaking from the University of Hyd...

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3 years ago

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#NetNeutrality and the human on the street

Even without adding #NetNeutrality to the mix, the relationship between the average consumer and any telecom services provider in India is a tetchy one at best. Irrespective of whether you opt for prepaid or post-paid services, you seem to be forever haggling over available services and the prici...

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4 years ago

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Blindsided by Big Numbers: Looking Beyond Electoral Wins

tr.v. blind·sid·ed, blind·sid·ing, blind·sides. 1. To hit or attack on or from the blind side. 2. To catch or take unawares, especially with harmful or detrimental results Too much of a good thing, as the idiom goes, is bad. Excessively bright light can be more blinding than pitch darkness. The g...

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4 years ago

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Hindu Vahini v. St. Pious HS

The reference in this article is to this video circulated on Facebook by the "unofficial" page of Hindutva-heart throb Dr. Subramanian Swamy, which shows "Hindu Vahini volunteers" haranguing the teachers of St. Pious High School in Hyderabad's Ramnagar area.The video is also linked to an article ...

godavar
4 years ago