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Showing posts with label caste. Show all posts

Showing posts with label caste. Show all posts

9.11.15

Laloo is the mouse that's licked all the cream: Bihar elections

Like many others, I too have been riveted by the Bihar elections. Or, rather, its coverage. And the feeble response to and recognition of t...

29.6.15

The corpse carriers: Parsi untouchability

A news story on untouchability among the Parsis may seem like an anachronism, but this is how the pallbearers in the community are trea...

19.11.11

There's a Kambli in you, too

Teary on camera, 2011 You have heard about cricketer Vinod Kambli crying on a television channel. You have heard the experts. The “I was...

2.12.10

Bihar's Mythic Development: No Looking "Backwards"

Bihar's Mythic Development No Looking "Backwards" by Farzana Versey Counterpunch, December 1, 2010 India, once considere...

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Farzana Versey: Mumbai, India; Writes. Rights.
From on-field journalism to armchair critique. Words are a weapon, they are also a shield.
Also, a frustrated artist. A frustrated singer. A frustrated gourmand. A frustrated photographer. This helps. It adds pathos to the plebeian.
I have a healthy disregard for objectivity.

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