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With PM Narendra Modi citing the Emergency to accuse the Congress of turning India “into a jail for its selfish personal interests”, Alok Nirantar suggests the current generation is plagued by an emergency of a whole other sort.
Hemant Morparia talks of hope that some friendly yoga may one day replace the aggressive show of might currently performed during the flag lowering ceremony at the Wagah border.
Kirtish Bhatt draws on Delhi’s ongoing Chipko moment to suggest people may undertake another such movement in light of reports that the government is likely to fix a temperature threshold for ACs.
Manjul, in FirstPost, suggests that the trolls who attacked Sushma Swaraj for pulling up a passport official who harassed an inter-faith couple were the BJP’s Frankenstein’s monster. In the last few years, social media trolling has substantially increased in India.
In The Indian Express, Mika pokes fun at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for failing to take adequate measures before the torrential rains that lash Mumbai each year.
Sandeep Adhwaryu, in The Times of India, suggests that the architects of the Emergency might consider themselves amateurs in the current political scenario.
In The Hindu, Surendra takes a jibe at Delhi’s proposed tree-cutting drive.