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Sunil Menon

8 months

Vatican. Mecca. The two keep popping up as metaphors with remarkable frequency wrt #Ayodhya -- as expressions of the collective Hindutva psyche. VHP statements, pieces by RW 'intellectuals', fawning media references...it's all over. Why? My piece:

Ayodhya as the Hindu Vatican

It is not just a city that is being rebuilt, but a whole mental universe. Around the singularity of Ram

www.indiatoday.in

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2018. Kerala floods. Everybody had fled, abandoning my old parents. This man whose name I do not know, he returned and carried my paralysed 87-year-old father on his shoulders for two miles in waist-deep floodwaters. I only know him as "Mustafa's brother". #MyKeralaStory

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Guys if you have your own story of #brotherhoodinKerala share it here under the #MyKeralaStory

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Wheels within wheels. Davinder Singh, the #Kashmir senior cop held with weapons and two Lashkar/Jaish men in his car, is the same one who tortured Afzal Guru! Who Afzal said was involved in planning the Parliament attack, as Arundhati Roy wrote in Outlook!

Decorated J&K Cop Caught With Hizbul Terrorists On Way To Delhi

A Jammu and Kashmir police officer decorated with the President's medal for bravery was caught on Saturday with two terrorists, travelling in a vehicle on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway. The terrorists...

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4 years

My daughter's turning 21 in a minute :))))

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Grass is for cows... The greening of Indore just before the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas and investor summit. What an endearing environmental initiative!! The beating heart of Incredible India...other cities will go green with envy :)) #MadhyaPradesh

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2 years

Whichever way you make the jaws of a JCB move, you cannot get it to pronounce the word "justice".

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3 years

I am calling an end to my association with Outlook magazine. It has been a very meaningful and a very long one -- filling exactly half my life till now, naturally, as more than just a 'job'. With me, Outlook will be losing the last member of Vinod Mehta's original team...

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There's another interesting thing about #Kerala and #beef that people don't consider. We don't murder people who don't have it.

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2 years

I mean, it couldn't be simpler.

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4 years

A Supreme Court judge mutates faster than a virus.

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4 years

A bouquet of powerful essays by #Dalit women writers. All of them wrote from the trenches, from an embattled zone. A whole experiential domain opening up, always enlightening, disturbing the received opinion, challenging the old discourse, enriching, humbling. #DalitLivesMatter

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4 years

Malayali aano? :)) Three out of four testing positive is today's rates. I swear when I was growing up in the desert, it was 1/40,000.

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3 years

Allow me to quell the impression that seems to be going around that we have changed our cover. We have NOT. The image going around is that of an online promo. The magazine we brought out looks like this. @ShashiTharoor @MahuaMoitra @manojkjhadu @pbmehta

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#Siddaramaiah , a man from a shepherding community who speaks authentically for the backwards, as #Karnataka CM. #MallikarjunKharge , a Dalit, as party president. And Rahul Gandhi speaking unambiguously for a caste census...this is the political turn the Congress needed.

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4 years

Why are the police bestialising us? Why are humans trying to get home, with no other means to do it except on their feet, being brought to their KNEES? Crawl, duck-walk, frog-march? The symbolism is unmistakable. My column.

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7 months

Under the #GyanvapiMosque , radars have detected four broken pillar bases. Archaeologists have confirmed that the third one resembles the judiciary, the fourth is all but vanished...studies are on.

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4 years

A full constitutional bench of Sharmas, Shuklas, Mishras, Pandeys, Kaushiks and Shastris on ancient history. They are about to confirm that in 10,000 BC -- as the last Ice Age was still melting -- ancient Indians were watching Sudarshan TV in their cryogenic insulation jackets.

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His mom is never going to let him go trekking again.

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Kafeel Khan. A doctor directly engaged with epidemics. In prison.

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3 years

An old cousin called up, quite agitatedly, yesterday. Said the #Taliban takeover in Afghanistan would make it difficult "for Hindus like me (i.e. him) to speak freely" -- in Kochi, that is. I'm supposed to "do something" about it. Any suggestions?

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So Dr Harsh Vardhan is out and an MA in PolSc from Bhavnagar, who joined ABVP at age 20 in 1992 and whose distinct leaning towards Ayush is seemingly unblemished by any medical knowledge, has taken over as #HealthMinister . Ayushman bhava.

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2 years

@santwana99 takes over as Editor, @NewIndianXpress , becoming one of the rare few women editors of India, perhaps the first ever of a mainstream, multi-edition flagship brand. It's been a long, hard, lonely trek of 30 years. I've seen those years. Proud to be married to her.

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4 years

Laila Tyabji: "Modi ji, we’ve banged our thaalis, rung our bells, clapped, done our Janata Curfew. I do agree it’s important to show solidarity. Now please will you divert the 20,000 cr you’ve sanctioned for redeveloping Central Vista, and use it to buy ventilators, testers..."

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2 years

Merit flows through the blood. This has been proven through an experiment at AIIMS. The current director is the son of a former dean.

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3 years

Haan haan, Osama bin Laden ka bhoot wants so badly for Yogi to win.

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Al Qaeda Module Busted In UP Planned Suicide Attacks In Lucknow: Police Read more:

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5 years

Another country. Another CAB. Another set of normal human beings.

Read No Shortcuts

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Wow. Right now in Scotland: Crowds are marching through the streets of Glasgow chanting: “Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here!” As part of a protest against Boris Johnson.

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Sunil Menon

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6 years

First we take Manhattan Then we take Berlin

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Sunil Menon

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2 years

And Sharjeel Imam probably knows more Indian history than the entire Union cabinet put together. Scholars should not be in jail.

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Sunil Menon

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3 years

Eid Mubarak everyone, Mewati style 😊 let good happen

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@kazhugan

3 months

Two absolutely sharp choices Rahul Gandhi made in earlier years: 1) saying no to this B-minus grade 'analyst'. A self-anointed PricewaterhouseCooper of politics. Garden variety careerist with sub-zero commitment to political morality 2) choosing to give the biscuit to the dog

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@darab_farooqui

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Congress in: Rajashthan - 9 seats, Muslim population 9.07% Haryana - 5 seats, Muslim population 7.03% Karnataka - 9 seats, Muslim population 12.92% Maharshtra - 13 seats, Muslim population 11.54%. Punjab - 7 seats, Muslim population 1.93% Tamil Nadu - 9 seats, Muslim population

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5 years

Where leaders go into hiding, where the institutions collapse, the people take it on themselves. The heart goes out.

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2 years

Took a long time coming, but someone had to get around to doing this. Yuval Noah Harari has been plying the thinnest soup ever, two spoonfuls is all I could ever take.

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@kazhugan

3 years

There seems to be some deeply compulsive behaviour pattern behind this "seizing of property" business.

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1 year

Now we are all looking marooned. In this flood of toxicity. Like those coastal fisherfolk who sailed upstream into the flood to save people, looks like Kerala may yet rescue India.

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@mallumitron

1 year

@kazhugan Sunil bhai I’m sure that you too would have done the same. Every Sunil has got a Musthafa in Kerala.

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He walks two miles INTO the flood to get them out. With another to help. And wades out with old man on shoulders, and small old lady trailing with a small bag with clothes for a day and his medicines. Have never been able to meet him and thank him for touching my life thus.

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Sunil Menon

@kazhugan

4 years

Hark the day when Rakhi Sawant sounds saner and more sorted in her head than a good part of Indian media and the wolfsheep they breed in society.

Hypocrisy Watch 👀

@bigotry_watch

4 years

Rakhi Sawant understands that a pandemic is the worst time to play hate politics but our Godi media is doing the opposite.

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3 years

Alternative cover. The one we did not use.

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1 year

It had been raining. Incessantly. For days. And old paddy area on the edge of town. Now suburban housing. Naturally, low-lying and vulnerable. But they all said "no danger". At night, as the rains kept up, pond and drain and surrounding wetlands all merged into one big ocean.

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4 years

Andaas apna apna :)) Kannur here

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6 years

Utterly butterly malicious... #Amul

Verghese Kurien funded conversions with Amul money: BJP’s ex-minister

“Amul was founded by Tribhuvandas Patel, but does the country know about Tribhuvandas Patel? The money that Gujarat’s farmers and cattle rearers collected through their hard work, he (Kurien) donated...

indianexpress.com

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6 years

Prof Rajan Gurukkal weighs in with a fine take on the history of #Sabarimala . Its Adivasi provenance, its ethos of ritual openness and social flexibility, its dubious takeover in the 20th c by Brahminism (with a low place in its internal hierarchy)...

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3 years

A word on the screen name #DilipKumar . There was also a reverse traffic. People adopting Urdu names suited to the world of shayari or film lyrics. Firaq Gorakhpuri was Raghupati Sahay. And Gulzar probably imagined he would get nowhere with a handle like Sampooran Singh Kalra.

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3 years

What is indefensible is indefensible. No gloss can be put on Shailaja Teacher's omission from the Pinarayi cabinet. The intent behind it simply comes out too sharp and transparent. Small, petty thinking.

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Mother, 72 then, and just 4'10" or so. With my paralysed father. And practically, the sea at the door. Mustafa's umma, a fine old matriarch from two houses down the lane, is the only one who remembers them, and sends the son back.

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6 years

Now, good people of Hindostan, exactly why does this not come even remotely as a surprise? Because it was always clear that violent nationalism is a form of toxic masculinity. Repressed male violence is at the heart of it. #TanushreeDutta #TanushreeExposesBollywood

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4 years

This has got to be the most unintentionally hilarious one ever :)) utter innocence on three counts: a) whether a stable form of Bali iconography exists (it doesn't) b) how a "Christian saint like Jesus" (!) is depicted c) most cripplingly, what native Indians really look like!

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3 years

Go well, Yusuf saab. For me, he reinvented speech itself for Indian cinema. Taking it away from the distant theatrical orations of the likes of Sohrab Modi. Down to ordinary human speech, intimate whispers, mumbles, bringing a sense of nearness and interiority. #DilipKumar

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1 year

And yes, since you asked, the biriyani Mustafa's umma sent for Id the other day was "delicious". I missed it by a few days.

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4 years

Here's a webinar idea. Take each of those young Indian people being put in jail, set them up against each member of the Union cabinet. Any, each, every one. Live one-on-one debate, no trolls. You'll know exactly what's they're trying to arrest. #UmarKhalid

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3 years

Please do read the issue. Excellent articles there. A magisterial lead essay by Pratap Bhanu Mehta @pbmehta , the complete Covid chargesheet by @ShashiTharoor , @manojkjhadu on Modi's betrayal of both rural India and of the urban poor, @MahuaMoitra on how the states are cheated.

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At some point, he called code red. His family, and the one on the left, both Hindu...they evacuated in panic. No one thought to alert this old couple in the house at the back. Mother woke to ankle-deep water. Rushed out. It's a sea out there. Screamed everyone's name. No one.

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The doctor who first dared to touch an HIV patient in India in the '80s, when everyone else was running for dear life. And steered our fightback against that new, unknown virus. Dr T. Jacob John on India's real ailment. PUBLIC HEALTH. Our lead essay.

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4 years

The artist in her own words... For everyone who was struck by the unusual beauty of the artwork on this @outlookindia cover, here is the artist, Malvika Raj, speaking of her own life journey, her cause, and how she recreated the #Dalit Madhubani....

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5 years

The meta question for them is, "Why are there Muslims?" Every other question flows from that.

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1 year

Mother, tending to father alone, was mindful but not yet worried. They slept, secure in the thought of neighbours. Next door, the man sat on the stairs leading to his first floor with a torch, watching the waters seep in and gradually rise. The lights had gone off.

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Joy Bangla

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As someone said, let's aim for 60 degree Celsius next year. Mission 2020. #forest #climatechange

New road to boost tourism will eat into 61 acres of Ooty reserve forest

CHENNAI: The State government is planning to build a new road to tourist hotspot Ooty to ease the flow of traffic to the hill station. For this, it plans to raz

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For those desirous of getting to know all this cool #Malayalam New Wave cinema stuff but struggling with the names, a ready reckoner: Lijo is a director Dijo is a director Joji is a film Joju is an actor...

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They are planning to "restore" the Martand Sun temple in #Kashmir . This is an absolute error. Historic sites must never be "restored". The only thing one can and must do is support preservation and prevent further damage from ageing. That is the highest respect.

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4 years

Heard the most wonderful variation on #WorkFromHome . A Bengali uncle called up and asked, "Still HomeWork?" 😊

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@BhimArmyChief Chandrashekhar Azad on floating a new party for Bahujans, why the compromises of the BSP made it necessary, on #NPR and #NRC , on the sale of the public sector, and on his election plans. An interview with @bhadrakali20 .

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Shailaja Teacher tops the list worthily, with honest hard work, foresight and ground connect, fighting a common, invisible foe: all the BJP people I know in Kerala acknowledge it. @RanaAyyub fights a different set of odds: compliments to her are an inverted critique of our media.

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@RanaAyyub

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The world's top 50 thinkers 2020: Our own Shailja teacher tops the list. I am honoured by d special mention "Someone else we missed was Rana Ayyub, the Indian investigative journalist, who has written fearlessly about the government’s crackdown in Kashmir

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2 years

Those five weeks in between jobs must have been hard...

Live Law

@LiveLawIndia

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Former Supreme Court judge Justice (Retd.) S Abdul Nazeer appointed as Governor of Andhra Pradesh. Justice Nazeer retired on January 4, 2023. #SupremeCourt #SupremeCourtOfIndia

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3 years

All this while, I hear, a Brahmin happily runs a meat shop called Vicious?

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4 years

Ammuma. Grandma. She's six months shy of 100. Braved displacement during Kerala's 2017 floods. And sat out the lockdown bewildered, with her faculties fading, bewildered about why no one was coming to see her. A great grandson finally reduces the social distance with an umma :)

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5 years

Almost everyone, including the SC judges who sentenced Afzal to death for "collective conscience", knew the evidence was thin. Not everyone read about the antecedents of the case, in Arundhati's fine synopsis here. The trail was very murky indeed.

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4 years

No consent. Absolutely not. Crude power, violence on thousands of innocents, a threatening aspect, painting the landscape with blood...these have nothing to do with devotion.

Suchitra Vijayan 🇵🇸

@suchitrav

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As an Indian and a Hindu, you don’t have my consent! This was a matter where the highest court ruled that faith of community trumped fact, evidence, or the law. You have my utter disgust, anger, and above all, shame.

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The lady who works at my house. Staring out into the fog at her home, a jhuggi cluster, far below. They came and announced on mikes that all "Bengali jhuggis" will be demolished tomorrow. What is happening? @gurgaonpolice @cmohry @mlkhattar #CAA_NRC

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The best moment in Indian cinema for you? One of them for me: when Balraj Sahni, his words mostly unspoken and only writ on his face, gets off that tanga and joins the jan sailab...in the last scene of Garam Hawa.

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4 years

A personal thread. Putting it out because it perhaps speaks to a universal experience of an epoch passing. Do indulge me. Two months ago, a part of my soil washed into the sea. Puthezhath Madhavikutty Amma, grandmother to me, would have turned 100 today.

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There's a genocide in our history we don't much talk about. It's like Turkey's willed amnesia about the Armenian massacre. Yes, it had a pre-context of violence further west, from where traumatised refugees poured into Jammu. Still, the effects were Malthusian in scale.

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There's some spinal injury epidemic going around, from the looks of it. Specialty clinic near my office always has a rush of cars outside. Good thing we have so many invertebrates in India.

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Empty symbolism, the disregarding of reason, hyper-centralisation, the preference for shock-and-awe rather than planning, unwillingness to share resources or the space for decision-making... @ShashiTharoor brings the precision of a coroner's inquest here.

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2 years

Statutory warning: on technical education being conducted in sundry Indian languages. A junior engineer is called a 'kanishtha abhiyanta' in Hindi. Just saying.

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3 years

How about renaming a few cities in China for a change...never seen the 'Greater India' map extend that side. What are we afraid of? Can so easily start with Shanghai (> Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Nagar).

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(In other news...) Slight change in my bio up there. Blissful unemployment ends. Have joined India Today magazine. Guess it's like what Henry Fonda's gunslinger character in 'Warlock' says: "Times are changing, sure, but there'll be enough towns to last my lifetime."

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Why is Siddique Kappan not in a Delhi hospital, why is he back in Mathura jail, even after a Supreme Court order? Has our Constitution contracted Covid?

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My daughter brought these for me from her botany lab. They're called ixora. #Flowers

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Oru Hitchcockian sandhya

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5 years

Never thought I'd fall to the temptation of using the line "aap chronology samjhiye".

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The inexhaustible charm of Humayunpur...brief photo thread on food and place.

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That complete desolation of the second wave, the State all but collapsed, a lonely couple in a far corner of Delhi, desperate... One call to @srinivasiyc . His team came, did its best...too late, alas. Arranged for a cremation, stayed, helped. The only human presence there.

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How many of you were offended by this tweet? C'mon, be honest. I'm not gonna judge you. Context: almost every other person in Delhi had been helped by Srinivas and his team during the second wave.

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5 years

For those who are irritated and embarrassed...

Amro Ali

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New Zealand's iconic silver fern is beautifully redrawn as Muslims in different stages of prayer. (By Pat Campbell, the Canberra Times). #NewZealand

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My feelings and wishes for Outlook will remain the warmest, I will always see it as "my magazine", something I nurtured from the natal ward on with a great deal of love and sacrifice. The feelings, indeed, have always been more of a filial nature than anything 'careerist'.

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My daughter painted a little part of the landscape many, many moons ago. First sighting of her palette work this summer.

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Heritage also needs a future. The Ajanta murals, painted millennia ago, have a life so fragile that we must be afraid, very afraid. History, art and religion in a three-sided tango at the heart of a heritage emergency. My piece. Raghu Rai's photographs.

Ajanta in peril, and how to save it

The world-famous ancient cave murals in Maharashtra stare at ruin due to debatable preservation and display techniques and unbridled tourism. How can we save these millennia-old artistic wonders?

www.indiatoday.in

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@kazhugan

3 years

One last salute to the great Vinod: thanks chief, hope you're watching from somewhere up there with that bemused grin, and a wisecrack I can't hear. For years, you went home as I walked in, knowing everything was safe. You'd know I've done that even after you left for good.

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Sunil Menon

@kazhugan

1 year

#DKShivakumar doesn't get too many kind words coming his way. He's associated more with money and backroom politics than political morality. But the man is said to have refused an offer for deputy CM to get out of jail. Stuck with it through the gloom... #KarnatakaPollsWithTNIE