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Bobby Kunhu

Smaller States, Larger Democracies

The discourse around the formation of Telengana state has been largely by opinions that try to quantify or assess what would be qualitatively good or bad for Telengana and its people specifically and for the Andhra Pradesh state generally. I really fail to understand this debate if one recognizes the [...]

Bobby Kunhu

Old Joe McCarthy is Visiting

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Bobby Kunhu

One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

These are difficult times to be recovering from any kind of flu, especially if you are literate and/or have access to any form of mass media. I am neither an epidemiologist, nor a medical anthropologist. These are ramblings literally inspired by feverish delirium!! And it is fairly deliberate too that I am writing this at a juncture [...]

Bobby Kunhu

The Empire Lives on

“Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in Politics”

The sub-text that runs through Robert Harris’, Imperium, is that politics – more particularly, democracy has not transcended the petty power manipulations and hegemonies since the Roman Republic. Reminiscent of the Sergei Eisenstein classic , Ivan the Terrible, Harris’ [...]

Bobby Kunhu

Queering religion

Some years back, one of my good activist friends – very prominent, secular and politically articulate quoted her daughter to indicate that she had “no problems” with homosexuality as long as it did not involve her children or siblings!!

In 1996, during the initial presentation on “Discrimination based on Sexual Orientation” [...]

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