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On 4th November morning I received several telephone calls from friends and relatives stating that a statement made by me to HIRU TV is being used in a radio programme of the SLBC in an improper manner including causing threat to my life. According to them what was said in this programme was going to cause a real danger to my life.

Sanskriti Menon, SUM Net Secretariat head at Pune, says that while the magnitude of problems may be more severe in larger cities, the issues in the smaller cities are likely to get progressively worse and could be avoided through timely policy intervention and would benefit from broad directions that emanate from the NUTP. SUM Net has also written a letter to the Ministry of Urban Development suggesting that it should undertake a country-wide process of policy dialogue on urban transportation.

Private schools in Pakistan have banned teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai’s book, calling her a tool of the West.

The Prime Ministerial candidate of BJP, Narendra Modi, exhibited his stupendous knowledge of history once again while speaking in the inauguration of a Hospital in Balasinor, Gujarat on 10th November, 2013. He vociferously blamed Congress for not bringing the asthi of the freedom fighter Shyama Prasad Mukherjee who Modi claimed had died in Geneva in 1930!

Scanned version of unpublished typescript from 1981; a paper trying to define what constitutes communalism in India.