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Shouldn’t the wheelchair be for all those who need it or should it be for only privileged few?
One should accompany a physically challenged – that is, disabled – and an elderly person, and notice the hurdles he or she faces in doing things the young and fit elderly do?…
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Will the Thackeray cousins dance the tango?
The Thackeray cousins, the nephew and son of the patriarch, the late Bal Thackeray, have suddenly created waves. Nephew Raj Thackeray has proffered his hand to Uddhav. Uddhav has shown his inclination…
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Hindi brings Marathi back to the centrestage–What next?
More Marathi-speaking people know Hindi in Maharashtra than those in each southern Indian state, which opposes the “imposition” of Hindi. Probably, even more than all those states put together. With more migrants…
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Opinion: Water water everywhere but not enough to drink–that is world-class Mumbai for you
Remember, Mumbai is located on the shores of the Arabian Sea. But here is a fact to chew on. When 2,000 licensed water tankers that ply Mumbai city – not the metropolitan…
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Controversy surrounding ‘Phule’: Are Indian cinegoers becoming more intolerant?
There was a Mahatma before Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was given that honorific by Ravindranath Tagore in 1915. Jyotirao Phule, also known as Jyotiba Phule, was bestowed with that at a public meeting…
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Isn’t ‘Mumbai’ a mini-India? Will not the insistence on use of Marathi alone damage the State?
Though Maharashtra is officially a Marathi-speaking state, has a Marathi majority population, the state government does its business in that language, Marathi, suddenly took the centre stage. Of the three rival Senas,…
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Is Maharashtra too becoming a ‘bulldozer state’?
What Kunal Kamra said the other day and raised a laugh from his audience was nothing new. Uddhav Thackeray and his loyalists, that is those who stayed with him when the Shiv…
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Aurangzeb: A ‘grave’ issue snowballing into a long-time divisive problem
Two years ago, a lane in New Delhi named after the Mughal ruler, Aurangzeb was changed to Abdul Kalam Lane. It commemorated the late president but did not erase Aurangzeb from the…
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Maharashtra: Unkept promises in electoral politics amount to immorality; but who cares?
When a political party or an alliance wins an election on the strength of a promise and does not deliver on it once elected to power, it amounts to short-changing the voters.…
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Resurgence of Marathi sentiment: Learn, speak, and respect it, people are told
Let us divide what Suresh Joshi, also known as Bhayyaji, a senior RSS leader said about Mumbai that kicked up a political storm in Maharashtra into two parts, thereby making some sense.…
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Who was he? Asks Central Censor Board exposing its shameful ignorance about Namdeo Dhasal
“Who is he? We don’t know about him.” That is what the unnamed officials of the Central Board of Film Certification reportedly said when denying clearance to a crowd-funded Marathi movie, “Chal.…
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Given the debacle in Delhi, is INDIA left with any future?
There are too many questions regarding the I.N.D.I Alliance. Was the alliance for all times to come? Or till such time the Bharatiya Janata Party was defeated? Or was it limited only…
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Delhi’s new dispensation should walk the talk
BJP’s handsome win in Delhi and the AAP keeping about a third of its seats in the outgoing Assembly is not the end of the political smear. The next few months will…
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Under a hugely widening financial crunch, Maharashtra Govt. trying to trim expenses
Unlike ever before Maharashtra government is trying to trim its expenses, some wisely, some not so wisely so that it can save money to keep its flagship project, Ladki Bahin Yojana of…
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Menace of VIP, VVIP culture; common man suffers because of privileges they enjoy
Soon after the Maha Kumbh stampede, the Uttar Pradesh government decided to withdraw the validity of VIP passes on important days when the huge crowds surge hugely. This applied to a day…
