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Bachi Karkaria

Mumbai
As seen in: Bangalore Mirror, BBC, India Times, Mumbai Mirror, The Economic Times, The Guardian, The Times of India, Yahoo Finance, Hindustan Times, Hindustan Times Mumbai and
Columnist, chronicler of urbania, author, media trainer. Tweets one-liner arrows at current foibles. Bestseller books on M S Oberoi, Nanavati case, etc
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Belonging has become a deeply contested concept

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By Bachi Karkaria
| HT Syndication
Posted On: 2026-09-23 Posted By: Bachi Karkaria Health & Lifestyle National Technology Politics International Hindustan Times Columnists India, Sept. 23 -- Forget Sonia Gandhi's upcoming memoir. Belonging is loaded with more baggage than the train taking you home, or where you think home is. Few other words carry such a load: physical, political, social, emotional, and economic. Even grammatical. Adding an "s" at the end turns it into an object. A noun that's also an apt verb.
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Belonging has become a deeply contested concept

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By Bachi Karkaria
| Hindustan Times Verified
Forget Sonia Gandhi’s upcoming memoir. Belonging is loaded with more baggage than the train taking you home, or where you think home is. Few other words carry such a load: physical, political, social, emotional, and economic. Even grammatical. Adding an “s” at the end turns it into an object. A noun that’s also an apt verb. In myriad places, some person/group is objecting to another’s claim of belonging there. It ranges from road rage to Gaza — and that’s been going on since the Old Testament.
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Something pheeshy

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By Bachi Karkaria
| Outliers: A TOI+ series
M achhe Bhate Bangali – If the ‘Bengali is made of fish and rice’, politics is nishchoy the other DNA strand. Money achche, remember the OTT fish theatrics of the April-May elections, when BJP brandished real and flex specimens to counter TMC ’s warning that the alleged ‘bhejetarian’ party would come in singing ‘Shaka Lauki Boom Boom’? Well, none of it prevented BJP from swimming upstream hilsa-like to spawn victory, or from making TMC the one that’s gone away.
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