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  My hometown Allahabad was a city of education and open political debates. Now it is overrun by saffron-gamcha-wearing bikers, where to live as a Muslim is to live in subterfuge.

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• Social Commentary Please Catch Me Before I Fall

  When you are at the brink, caught between trudging on and ending it all, an understanding look or reassuring hand – or even the memory of a dead uncle – can make all the difference.

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• Social Commentary Dilli Heart: The Capital’s Endless Romance with the Delhi Metro

  The Delhi Metro’s final stretch connects the city’s two extremities of Noida and Gurgaon. The Metro’s crowning achievement is that it exists at all. It is a reminder that in city where everything and everyone seems to be going the wrong way, the Delhi Metro feels like the only thing going right.

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• Social Commentary Right to Privacy in India? Strictly for Netas Only

  In response to a query, the Election Commission stated that the finances of political parties were outside the purview of the RTI. It’s a bit duplicitous for a country with a laissez-faire attitude to privacy. It’s as if everyone’s privacy is to be jealously protected – except that of Indian citizens, of course.

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• Social Commentary Chape, Chamdi, Chutiya: Three Words India Can’t Live Without

  As the onslaught of English continues, many a local word has disappeared from our lingo. But there are three words that even the kale-consuming, chia-seed-loving hipsters can’t let go of – chape, chamdi, and chutiya.

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