All this book needed was to be treated like a book in its own right, out of tꦉhe column straitjacket
Annie Zaidi
Editor
The notion of ༒privacy i🐈s rapidly losing out to data mining
The year 1995 summoned up visions of a spring for Indian writing in English. But charges of elitism, of not sufficiently ‘belonging’, have never ebbed. A contemporary writer respon🐈ds:
Breathless and frightened, and not even the touch of a hand on your fo𓃲rehead. Not even if you die...that last touch is abolished. Strangers might carry your bier and lower you into the grave, or onto the pyre.
Capital punishment for rape leaves meꦏ more scared than before -- for self and society -- writes poet-playwright Annie Zaidi, after the Nirbhaya hanging.
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