Unexpected summer rain turned the weeklong arts festival into a muddy nightmare. Up to 70,000 people were asked to stay put as officials closed the roads.
Unlike Maharashtra’s Enchanted Valley Festival or NH Weekender, Arunachal Pradesh’s Ziro music festival was a surreal experience for women, including those travelling solo.
In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.
IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.
Ms. Bakhsh has nothing to say about the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan or even her home state of Kashmir.
She us concerned about Muslims everywhere on earth but nit in the plight of the Hindus in Kashmir. The targeted pogroms and genocide against Hindus carried out by Islamists in Kashmir valley does not bother her. She would not report it.
But these very same people are totally silent on what’s happening in Bangladesh. They are warning us Indians of the danger of communalism when communalism, in it’s most violent and destructive form, is tearing apart Bangladesh. Hundreds of Hindu Bengalis have been murdered and thousands of homes and shops gutted. The violence and intimidation continues unabated.
But people like Paranjoy Guha Thakurta won’t speak a word about it.
Ms. Bakhsh has nothing to say about the persecution of Hindus in Bangladesh, Pakistan or even her home state of Kashmir.
She us concerned about Muslims everywhere on earth but nit in the plight of the Hindus in Kashmir. The targeted pogroms and genocide against Hindus carried out by Islamists in Kashmir valley does not bother her. She would not report it.
But these very same people are totally silent on what’s happening in Bangladesh. They are warning us Indians of the danger of communalism when communalism, in it’s most violent and destructive form, is tearing apart Bangladesh. Hundreds of Hindu Bengalis have been murdered and thousands of homes and shops gutted. The violence and intimidation continues unabated.
But people like Paranjoy Guha Thakurta won’t speak a word about it.