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The Indian Subcontinent Argues with Itself

Sunday, 25 October 2026Since December 2010 · 4,165 posts · 93,669 comments
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    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In our age of internet echo chambers, this immortal line has new meaning, not of privilege and poverty but about disparate views of the same time and space as fed to us by our information sources. For instance I viewed the Delhi crackdown… Continue reading →

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