On 31 July, the Thrikkakara police booked Malayalam rapper and songwriter Vedan, after a young doctor alleged that he had sexually abused her on multiple occasions.
Calicut University added a song by Vedan to its BA Malayalam Literature syllabus but withdrew it after a BJP-linked syndicate member’s complaint that the song was 'inappropriate'.
Two Punjab IAS officers and a govt servant are behind a rap number the EC has approved to spread voter awareness. Plan is to run it on Facebook, radio & YouTube.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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