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Activists surely love to “bend it like Beckham” or worse even more ! Homeless and freebies are equating apples to oranges. Mr Mander should introspect of an iPhone wielding lady travelling for free in a government bus is the same as a homeless person. And if there are 800 million homeless people in India who need to be fed. The SC too is not all innocent. It did not feed its wisdom for the past decade when “free bijlee, free paani” discourse rode a certain political entity to power for most part of last decade.
Activists surely love to “bend it like Beckham” or worse even more ! Homeless and freebies are equating apples to oranges. Mr Mander should introspect of an iPhone wielding lady travelling for free in a government bus is the same as a homeless person. And if there are 800 million homeless people in India who need to be fed. The SC too is not all innocent. It did not feed its wisdom for the past decade when “free bijlee, free paani” discourse rode a certain political entity to power for most part of last decade.