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The Republic of Small Protests
IT rained hard through the night.
At the Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium in Ranchi a group of young protestors, some of whom had been there for days, held a blue plastic sheet overhead to keep their books, their phones and their clothes dry....
What disappeared is not money, but accountability
THE real headline number in the latest Comptroller and Auditor General report on Union expenditure is not ₹54,282 crore, though it is what most media reports have run with.
The revealing number is actually ₹27.35 crore, which is what the U...
The story begins before the story
Arati Kumar-Rao and I get to chat several times each week, and most of our chats are about something or other to do with story and storytelling.
We measure storytelling in terms of quantifiable output: the story on the page, the photograph...
Permission to dissent, sir?
A box to protest in. Photo: Manas Ranjan Bhui for The Tribune
INDIA’s Constitution guarantees the right to protest. But you have to apply for police permission first.
Too often these days, the response to your application is in the langua...
The Active Voice
Image courtesy The Guardian
DHARMENDRA PRADHAN resigned on Saturday. In the calculus of this government, that sentence should not be possible. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said as much once, in so many words, smirking as though he found...
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