Ayodhya

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Ram temple at science 'festival'

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Op-eds Science Ayodhya Bharatiya Janata Party Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Department of Science and Technology India India International Science Festival Indian Science Congress Ram temple Ram temple consecration Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh religion Surya Tilak Vijnana Bharati

The Surya Tilak project had courted controversy in the past with Trinamool Congress's Mahua Moitra flagging it on social media in November 2021. The CSIR officials, however, defended the project a…

Review: 'Paatal Lok' (2020)

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Culture Amazon Prime India Ayodhya Bundelkhand caste violence communalism gratuitous violence Hathoda Tyagi Hindi heartland Jigarthanda Neeraj Kabi neo noir Paatal Lok Punjab right-wing politics Super Deluxe trans-women Uttar Pradesh

I binge-watched Paatal Lok today, a show on Amazon Prime India about a cynical cop who is all too familiar with how the The System works and who gets a high profile case by chance – to investigate a c…