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This Issue 31 / january / 2018 “quoteunquote”

History dominates present-day politics

Violence at Bhima-Koregaon assumes significance in nationwide anti-caste narrative
“I said no to the seat of power when
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I was 45 years old. Do you think I’ll

want it when I am 68? I am not in
politics for money or fame. I have

enough of it. The time for political

change is here. The system needs to

be changed. Politics has become very

tainted. Democracy is under threat.”

Rajinikanth, Actor

“If a woman or a man says I have divorced you, is that a criminal
offence under any law. It is not. The moment the magistrate
declares the divorce null and void, the woman has the twitterati
status of a wife and in her capacity as a wife she is entitled
to unrestricted access to resources of the family, her North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just
matrimonial home, to much more than a ‘subsistence stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his
16/ aGrICuLTurE / cows 34/ TECHnoLoGy / crYptocurreNcY allowance’. Where is the question of custody if a divorce is desk at all times.” Will someone from his
Milking cattle menace the Baffling Bitcoin declared null and void?” depleted and food starved regime please
Three Punjab villages turn stray Is the much hyped digital indiRa jaising, Senior AdvocAte And ex-AdditionAl Solicitor GenerAl inform him that I too have a Nuclear
cows from nuisance to assets money wealth of the future? Button, but it is a much more powerful
“If we are not agreeing with the J&K constitution and Indian constitution, then one than his, and my Button works!
what do we believe in?..What would you gain from such a stance? Today, I would
like to bring on record that the people of the state would gain from only India and Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
38/ Law / upcoc 60/ CuLTurE / music not from anywhere else … Resumption of dialogue between India and Pakistan is
Making violations Basement Bhangra the only way forward to end the bloodshed in Kashmir.” the journalists exposing the #Aadhaar
normal breach deserve an award, not an
Meet the woman who helped mehboobA mufti, j&k chief MinisteR
UP govt’s draconian bill on lines blur boundaries between investigation. Want to arrest those
on MCOCA faces opposition people through music “For too long, women have not been heard or believed if they dared to speak their responsible? they are called @UIDAI.
truth to the power of those men, but their time is up. Their time is up… .” Edward Snowden @Snowden
oprAh Winfrey, hollywood actoR
44/ EConoMy / tourism
Budgeting GST woes 64 / vanITy faIr / gLamorati “In the last one-and-a-half years, I spoke the truth, whether it is Kejriwal’s decisions or issues Let us take the bull by its horn and ask
prime minister: What do you choose —
Troubles of the tourism sec- We are equal! like surgical strike, irregularities in ticket distribution, softness towards extremists in Punjab, Manusmriti or constitution?
tor must be addressed via GST Priyanka Chopra bats for gender JNU incident, etc. I have been rewarded for speaking the truth in the form of punishment.” Jignesh Mevani @jigneshmevani80
reforms equality KumAr viShWAS, aaP leadeR

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