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Gen Z rebels must contend with India’s delulu democracy

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By Naresh Fernandes
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Last Saturday, with the sudden exit of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, a protest in Mumbai’s Bandra neighbourhood called to demand his resignation was transformed into a victory rally. The waterfront resounded with whoops of triumph. But in a community hall down the road, the mood was markedly different.
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What Mumbai’s rulers should realise about devastating rains: The exceptional is the new normal

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By Naresh Fernandes
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At the end of a week of incessant rains in which nine Mumbai residents died in a house collapse or because trees had fallen on them, apologists of the administration swarmed on to social media to offer absolution. “No infrastructure in the world is designed to handle so much rain, but life is on in Mumbai,” pronounced one user on X. Proclaimed another, “No country in the world can have a city unflooded with such huge [amount] of rain in a short spell.
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Name changing in India: From decolonisation to neo-colonialism?

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By Naresh Fernandes
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Seventy nine years after Independence, most colonial names have been wiped clean in Mumbai. So when Maharashtra minister Mangal Prabhat Lodha found one that was still intact and proposed that the municipal King Edward Memorial Hospital be rechristened, there really shouldn’t have been much of a debate. “The name King Edward represents colonial rule,” Lodha said at an event to celebrate the hospital’s centenary in January. “It has no connection with India today.
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