View: Tanishq advertisement controversy and India 2020’s creepy-crawlers

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor tweeted, ‘If Hindu-Muslim ‘ekatvam’ irks them so much, why don’t they boycott the longest surviving symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity in the world — India?’

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The other issue is ‘fear’. BJP patriarch L K Advani had chastised the media during the Emergency when he said, ‘You were asked to bend, you crawled.’ There is no Emergency today. Yet, the crawling has become pervasive. With exceptions, the media crawls for the fear of being rapped on the knuckles by fearsome rappers.

By Omkar GoswamiPonder briefly on a thought experiment. Transport yourself to Germany of September 1934, after the death of President Paul von Hindenburg and the passing of the German referendum by a large majority that combined the posts of president and chancellor into a single one. Under that new chancellorship, would any German company have come up with an advertisement showing an aged Jewish man blessing an Aryan German lass?You can bet all

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