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21 Oct 2018
Bombay in 1993: The Khal nayaks of communal politics
Radhakanta Barik
The city of Bombay being a working-class city had its life and soul for which they could protest against the killings of minorities specifically the Muslims by the Hindutva forces in the month of January, 1993 which revived old memory of the 1956 film song 'Bombay Meri Jan' which depicts the city on the backdrop of the partition
"Kahin satta kahin patta /
Kahin chori kahin res /
Khain daaka Kahin phaaka /
Khain thokar kahin thes
ye hain Bombay meri Jan"
This song got replayed on the backdrop of riots of 1993. Hindutva forces organised their riots against the Muslims and killed them and murdered and raped. This happened in the month of January 1993.
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G.D. Agarwal's Third and Final Letter to PM Modi |
In his bid to get government machinery to act on saving the Ganga, environmentalist G.D. Agarwal, a former IIT Kanpur professor on a ‘fast unto death’ gave up drinking even water on October 9 to put pressure on the central government. Finally, on Thursday, 11th October, after fasting for over a hundred days, Agarwal succumbed to a heart attack; his demise soon after he was forcibly shifted to AIIMS Uttarakhand by the state government.
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Remembering M K Gandhi |
“De Valera and his Green Shirts with their back to the wall,
Hitler with his Brown Shirts riding for a fall,
Mussolini with his Black Shirts lording over it all,
Three Cheers for Mahatma Gandhi with no shirt at all!”
- ‘Sagittarius’ in The New Statesman and Nation (circa 1935) |
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