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April 7, 2016 The emperor’s clothes: BJP files police complaint against journalist whose tweet mocked Modi
“Every joke is a tiny revolution,” observed British novelist George Orwell in 1945 with characteristic perspicacity. People have always mocked the powerful, either through prose, poetry, theatre or – most brutally – jokes about their body functions. To these analogue forms of humour, we’ve now added more digital equivalents – for example, thiscompilation of 24 […]
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February 18, 2016 Red cards in cricket: An idea whose time has come
Photo Credit: Saeed Khan / AFP 13.2K Total Views Cricket is often called the “gentleman’s game” but the reality is sometimes rather different. If the game conjured up romantic images of idyllic village greens and players clad in pristine white upholding the “spirit of the game” (whatever that means), it has metamorphosed into a multi-billion […]
