Uday Basu

Coordinating Editor
The Statesman
Kolkata

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@KanchanGupta I joined The Statesman as a junior Reporter in 1979. Hence, I know how my two juniors -Alapon and Sumon -rose in their professional career.The two had great acumen in manipulating connections. You may remember,Kanchan,your short stint in The Statesman when we two worked together.

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@MichaelFaudet Love tiptoes into hearts and kindles a light that extracts joy from everything and anyone..

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Correction : Nazi not Natzi

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@AatishTaseer @TheAtlantic Corruption, incompetence of Opposition parties have eroded the people's faith so much that they have no other alternative than the safron party. Same thing happened in Germany helping Natzi capture power and brainwash the majority with hatred for the minority. The rest is history

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@AatishTaseer @TheAtlantic Corruption, incompetence of Opposition parties have eroded the people's faith so much that they have no other alternative than the safron party. Same thing happened in Germany helping Natzi capture power and brainwash the majority with hatred for the minority. The rest is history

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Mamata Banerjee was cautious yesterday afternoon asking people not to panic and the police to prevent hoarding of foodstock. Hours later Modi pressed the panic button causing stocks to disappear from the market. What's going on ?

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@MehboobaMufti @Ram_Guha Monsters and Hitler's ghosts are on the saddle now to destroy Indian democracy

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@Ram_Guha I can only applyTS Eliot's words to men like Justice R Gogoi : "Hollow men, head piece filled with straw".
And Hamlet's diagnosis of a wholly "rotten" state (India today) with features like "law's delay, insolence of office, proud man's contumely, art tongue-tied by authority".

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@mkatju Very strong words, your Lordship, but very well said. What an obnoxious black sheep this man, taking whose name my tongue will blister, has proved himself to be !

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Tge stormtroopers are let loose to give fresh oxygen to hate politics and save the party's so-called ideological foundation. The ground under the BJP's feet is slipping away. Hence, the blood-thirsty criminal attack on the social fabric.

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Why were the riots in Delhi engineered with clear Modi-Shah tacit approval ? Simple : the edifice of BJP politics of Hindu-Muslim divide has started crumbling after Shaheen Bagh all-faiths solidarity and its increasing country-wide reach. Hence, BJP stormtroopers were let loose.

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@Ram_Guha The fact that these institutions are wilting under pressure sends shivers down the spine. Is it simply fear ? Or, are most custodians of these institutions infected with communal virus spread by colonial British and their brown/saffron collaborators ? One needs to ponder.

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@pbhushan1 @Ram_Guha Darkness is engulfing the country and this is one more evidence. Fortunately, people have always given burial to authoritarianism. Tennyson gives us hope when he says : "Our little systems will have their and cease to be." Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.

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@fayedsouza There's no dearth of blacksheep in every profession. The judiciary is no exception. It causes alarm when a judge erases the barriers between the judiciary and the executive. The sanctity of the Constitution is defiled. The country must be cautious about such snakes in the grass.

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@mv_john4 Rightwing bigots and their lumpens will have their day and cease to be. (Modelled on Tennyson's "Our little systems will have their day and cease to be.")

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@fayedsouza Such men are called "engagé", a French word which means shamelessly "committed to the establishment". It should be dinned into their ears that Delhi poll results inspire one to rephrase Gokhale's words and say : What Delhi thinks today, rest of India thinks tomorrow.

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What Delhi thinks today, the rest of India thinks tomorrow. Delhi Assembly poll results yesterday inspires such thoughts. Mini-India has spoken in Delhi : Rule to improve people's quality of lives, not to divide them in the name of religion to help your cronies plunder wealth.

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Pl watch this video about an extraordinarily upright, ramrod straight patriot :
https://t.co/G4TC8jtQBQ

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@thewire_in @Ram_Guha @narendramodi This is a BJP doctrine candidly described by AB Vajpayee as : "Mukh aur Mukhota" ( Face and the Mask). Modi is now the Mask and his hate-mongering colleagues are the Face.

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@Ram_Guha This is a classic example of "tables turned." Arnab was given a taste of his own medicine. What follows shows he is part of the BJP's Goebbelsian propaganda machine. So, his face must be saved by the Parivar. He is junior to me in the profession. How he has betrayed our tribe !