Yesterday, as the Jamia Millia protests intensified, a shocking bit of news came to the fore — that two Jamia Millia students had died after the retaliatory action by the Delhi Police. It’s impossible to pinpoint where the news originated from, but the first mention of Twitter seems to be […]
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NDTV, Quint And Others Report Cost Of Deepotsava At Rs. 133 Crore, Actual Cost Was 1.33 Crore
This Diwali, India created history. By simultaneously lighting 5.51 lakh diyas in Ayodhya, India entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest display of oil lamps. The pictures of Ayodhya went viral, citizens toasted the creation of yet another world record, and the nation brought in its largest […]
Beneath His Accent, Shashi Tharoor Is Just Your Average Fake-News-Spreading WhatsApp Uncle
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is lionized by India’s liberals for his English — they fawn over his vocabulary, they swoon over his accent, and they proclaim him an intellectual because he uses words that they need a thesaurus to understand. But beneath Tharoor’s veneer of linguistic sophistication might lie what […]