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À la Modi • Inside Story

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By Robin Jeffrey
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In the late 1960s I was teaching English in a government school in Chandigarh, a city being built from scratch as the capital for Punjab and Haryana, two newly formed states of the Indian Union. On bitterly cold January mornings I’d sometimes cycle to school on a route that took me past a private school where two or three dozen men in white shirts and khaki shorts were doing “lathi drill” — practising combat with metre-long staves.
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By Robin Jeffrey
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Indias ruling Bharatiya Janata Party hit a bump in the road in 2024 when it lost its majority in the Lok Sabha general elections, held between April and June. The shock jolted passengers a little, but the big orange BJP bus continues to roll down the road to Hindutva the promised land of a Hindu supremacist state. The results of the seven weeks of voting were a surprise.
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Yet, look at the chaos • Robin Jeffrey

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By Robin Jeffrey
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“What a crowd,” the elderly Brahmin said. “This year’s arrangements are excellent… yet, look at the chaos.” He was not referring to the havoc last Tuesday at India’s Maha Kumbh Mela, when crowd control collapsed, thousands of shuffling worshippers tumbled onto each other and up to sixty people were killed and many more injured. He was talking about the Maha Kumbh of 1977, and he made his remark on the most auspicious bathing day of the festival — the same day as the tragedy at this year’s event.
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