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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 09:35 PM | November 19,2009
Assertive media messages that seek to relaunch a backward area as a newly arrived miracle require a serious rethink
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 08:50 PM | November 05,2009
The initial entry into the Hindi blogosphere will certainly overpower the first-time surfer with its sheer size
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 10:06 PM | October 22,2009
The issue is no longer whether or not women should have the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 09:51 PM | October 11,2009
The usual definition of caste oppression can no longer explain emerging patterns of dominance
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 09:42 PM | September 24,2009
India’s social justice revolution has not changed ruling norms: It has created autocrats from other castes
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 09:04 PM | September 10,2009
If dissidence among classical music peer groups disappears, prejudices surface in public performances
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 08:57 PM | August 27,2009
While SEZs are scrapped, memorials to founders of the party in power are built on scarce public land
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 08:52 PM | August 13,2009
The inclusive madness and the vitality of Hindi and small-town India is usually ridiculed or dismissed
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 09:04 PM | July 30,2009
Gangubai Hangal is gone. Only her music remains: timeless, pure and awesome in its grand architecture
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 01:15 AM | July 14,2009
Politicians promise and Pinky dreams big but few months after the elections everyone is back to business and Pinky is forgotten
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 09:55 PM | June 15,2009
Unending lines of soldiers surrounded the deserted airport and stretched all the way into the heart of the city, where we were driven after being hurriedly bundled into bulletproof cars
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 12:20 AM | June 02,2009
Silence is not always peaceful. In fact, peace is hardly ever totally silent
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 12:52 AM | May 19,2009
The other half of Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and Chennai that builds those marvels of new architecture, cleans homes, washes clothes, scrubs pots and sells fruit and vegetables by the wayside, mostly lives in illegal colonies
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Mrinal Pande 12:24 AM | May 17,2009
From Mahatma Gandhi’s view point, the young Indian voters who have voted in the UPA government have ushered in a fresh platform for Gandhigiri in national politics
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The Other Side | Mrinal Pande 09:34 PM | May 04,2009
Communities such as Help Agra already existed and had often addressed local needs such as clean drinking water in public places, by passing the proverbial hat around among themselves instead of appealing to the government
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