by Sugata Srinivasaraju
In the past few days, there has been so much remembrance and celebration. The remembrance had to do with the traumatic circumstances under which India’s Partition happened on the eve of freedom, and freedom itself was a cause of celebration. This creates an impression of tragedy and freedom being intertwined. If freedom were to be a hunchback, then pain made it so.
Since last year, a certain sequence has been established by the Union government in which an extraordinary [ . . . ]
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