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Vir Sanghvi
Vir Sanghvi

They’re young, suspicious of English speakers, pro-Hindu, disdainful of traditional media, leery of the concepts of equality that once governed Indian political and social thinking – and their numbers are growing.

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The volley of abuse suffered by India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj in a controversy over a Hindu-Muslim marriage suggests a world where trolls are instruments of political action – and hatred is a mainstream activity.

Long a target of online lynch groups for her stand against religious bigotry, the Indian actress has got social media astir again with her new film, ‘Veere di Wedding’.

While US president’s son kept his mouth shut and stuck to business, Canadian PM turned himself into a joke who is either genuinely foolish or is cynically playing to his Sikh vote-bank in Canada.

Well-connected businessmen are able to run away with tens of millions of rupees in loans from state-run banks as institutions are manipulated by fat cats.