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It’s a sad commentary that in the world’s largest democracy, writers’ protest has become a subject of jokes.

— Vivek Agnihotri Urban Naxals (2018)

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Media czars have lost their access to the corridors of power and to people’s hearts.

Urban Naxals (2018)

Read the book because some people don't want you to.

Urban Naxals (2018)

In India, people fight with all their might to kill an idea.

Urban Naxals (2018)

Their discomfort is with the new order where the others are also heard.

Urban Naxals (2018)

That day I learnt that in the big fat world of Bollywood, the problem isn’t whether the pyramid should be inverted or not. The problem is there isn’t any pyramid.

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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