Stories from Prakash Belawadi
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Rival roads to Delhi
Leaders who tried to run down Anna movement as “urban” will be deprived of the rhetoric when it comes to poor Indian.
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Rise of the vernacular
When Kannada singer C Ashwath played a concert at ground where 40,000 people turned up for Deep Purple, 100,000 came.
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Protesting too much
Opposition parties have been riling public support against FDI, high diesel prices just to weaken Singh's government.
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Let’s get lowbrow
The new national manufacturing policy aims to create employment for 100 million, back to basics — the factory floor.
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Bollywood: trade and balance
For Ms Kaif to get an offer of Rs2.5 crore from a Karachi millionaire for a show would not be a great surprise.
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Food and democracy
Ordinary people care less about the grand notions of freedom and suffrage than food and water.
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Monsoon and media
For subcontinent's English media, there are two monsoon seasons. For vernacular India, many rains with ancient names.
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We must, at Wagah
An Independence Day Friendship Concert at Wagah would make the ultimate jugalbandi of our shared musical heritage.
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Deeper than skin
Indian version of democracy is determined overwhelmingly by divisive identity politics. The biggest divider is caste.