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characteristic of the intrepid voice of the subaltern who dared Indira Gandhi with the iconic taunt – “Induji Ye Kya Hua Aapko.”
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Arundhati criticised the nuclear tests in her polemical piece The End of Imagination – an early declaration of her alternative career plans as an activist-writer.
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Have no doubt about it, the crowd at the book launch events and book reading sessions is merely a gathering of Macaulay putras and putris. A case in point is the English-centric book launch scene in the capital.
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Let’s face it though unfortunate, English has become the ultimate arbiter of cultural capital in this country.
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With English as the triumphant badge and the anglo-gluten in mouth, the upwardly mobile class of the North seeks to shed every semblance of pre-Anglo existence.
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The anchor’s questions are as shallow as the audience and knows the new book only as much as the audience.
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The publishers made him to do the repeat act at a strategic point for promotion and a mini stall was set up selling only the new book. The author appeared a talking hack. Lakshmi had made Sarswati look ugly.
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One wants to retreat to the cliché – authors should be read, not seen.