Kaaka..

Kaaka..

On a sultry Gujarat afternoon, the lazy summer heat would waft in, bringing in its warm folds the salted sweetness of his voice. “Paaaaaavvvvbiskeeeeeeeeeeeet!” Always starting low at ‘paa’ and reaching a nice final peak at ‘keet.’ Paav and biscuit is how his vendor call could be broken up as, but for a child those […]

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Combating Communalism

Combating Communalism

[This article was published in ‘Communalism Combat’s’ tenth anniversary issue in 2003. However, the arguments still remain relevant.] 10 years is a numerically compulsive occasion for retrospection. Both for Javed Anand, Teesta Setalvad and their team, and for those well-wishers like us who have seen them wage a lonely battle since 1993. The introspection bit […]

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