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  2. Bombay Journal

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    / March 30, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Deja Vu All Over Again… Three friends, 45 years later, sit in a palatial Khar apartment in this siren city, enjoying the cocktail hour. Dinner is a couple of hours away. This is the first time that I can remember that Yogi, Mirchi and I have sat together since our...

  3. Something In the Way She Smiles…

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    / March 16, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Yeah, yeah, we’ve all heard that: a guy who gushes about his grandchild. This is different. I had the most amazing opportunity of spending four days with my granddaughter Kiara at our house, Imagine, in Goa. It rang true to its name. Imagine: Goa had a cool Spring; even in...
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    Tagged baby, goa, grandchild, granddaughter, grandparent, immortality, rajiv desai,

  4. Power, not principles

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    / January 11, 2012 / 3 Comments
    By Rajiv Desai Peeling the onion of political ideology in India is an assault on reason. You have Hindutva rabble-rousers who held sway from 1998 to 2004. Then there is the intellectually bankrupt Left that met its Waterloo on the India-US strategic partnership agreement. Sitting on opposition benches, their one-point agenda is to defeat...

  5. The Politics of Destabilization

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    / September 13, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Rajiv Desai   The `India against Corruption’ campaign focused somewhat obsessively on corruption in high places. Accordingly, politicians and bureaucrats were labelled corrupt. As such, they have to be brought under the purview of an ombudsman; a body whose powers have to be decided by civil society activists, justices...
    Posted in Politics
    Tagged destablisation

  6. The ABCD of the dispute over English

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    / July 14, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By Rajiv Desai   So here we go again. Language chauvinists in Goa have launched disruptive protests against the state government’s proposal that will allow primary and secondary schools to offer English as a medium of instruction. This is in addition to Marathi and Konkani.      A bunch of...
    Posted in Personal
    Tagged abcd, dispute, english

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