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Narendra Modi gets a lesson from a Harvard history prof: "To truly honour Netaji Bose, include the minorities; speak out against religious hatred; uphold equal citizenship; respect Tipu and Gandhi"

Narendra Modi gets a lesson from a Harvard history prof: “To truly honour Netaji Bose, include the minorities; speak out against religious hatred; uphold equal citizenship; respect Tipu and Gandhi”

Modern politics is mostly a 2.20 minute video wrapped in a 280-character tweet of a hollow “I’m-so-honoured-to-be-here” speech that can be delivered in any one of India’s 640 districts to the same canned applause of bhakts, bots, trolls and pliable journalists.

Sometimes, it is also about putting on the headgear from the region you are visiting in a concession to “local sentiment”.

On the…

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"Once we dreamt that we were strangers. We wake up to find that we were dear to each other."

— Rabindranath Tagore