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On importing self-deporting excellence
These days, disbelief is my usual reaction on waking up and reading the news from America. The attack on universities in particular is extraordinary, even though I understand it from the perspective of diffusing the sound of discontent over Palestine, and of turning institutions into vassals. Outside university there are the economic considerations that regulate Continue reading
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One man’s story of leaving Hindu nationalism
There’s an extract from the The New India in the Guardian. It’s about a writer named Partha Banerjee who joined the RSS when he was six, and left when he was a young man. It’s a story about a father and a son, and the role the organisation played in their lives. But there are Continue reading
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Eminent people
At 2.44pm on 30 May 2022, I received an email from a professor of horticulture in Haryana. It began with such respect that I, a journalist, was immediately wary: “Respected Sh. Rahul Bhatia Ji. Namaskar. Sadar Vande.” It was the text equivalent of a guest who unexpectedly finds himself garlanded and fed sweets while someone Continue reading
Rahul Bhatia 