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Picture this scene from the 1957 classic Pyaasa: Guru Dutt’s character Vijay, drunk and dejected, wanders through the narrow lanes of a red-light district.

It was the mid-‘80s. Independence Day was a holiday. I wanted to go out, play with my friends. But my mother sternly said, “Don’t go out today…who knows what will happen. Bombs may explode and what not.” That warning still rings in my ears every Independence Day.

कैसा अजीब मंजर है आंखों के सामने कि लोकतंत्र के पन्ने-पन्ने उखड़ कर, रद्दी कागजों-से हवा में इधर-उधर उड़ रहे हैं और इन्हीं पन्नों के बल पिछले एक दशक से ज्यादा समय से सत्ता में बैठी सरकार आंखें मूंदे बैठी है. कुछ वैसे ही जैसे बिल्ली सामने से भागते चूहों…

Opposition parties in Kerala have alleged electoral roll manipulation in Thrissur a year after the Bharatiya Janata Party's historic first Lok Sabha victory in the state, though evidence for the claims of large-scale manipulation remains limited. The accusations emerged amid broader national allegations by Congress leader Rahul Gandhi about electoral…