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SC comments in Nandy case aren't good for free speech
The Supreme Court may have grand Ashis Nandy a stay against arrest, but its observations did not do the cause of free speech any good. #Free Speech #Ashis Nandy #JLF2013
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Caste and corruption: Ashis Nandy has the right to be wrong
The only appropriate response to an idea - even if it's as horribly skewed as Nandy's original proposition and his equally bizarre clarification - is to challenge it intellectually and disprove it. #Corruption #Mayawati #Freedom of Speech #Dalits #Ashis Nandy #JLF2013
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Ashis Nandy's corruption theory is a load of bull
Ashis Nandy is in the dock for allegedly insulting OBCs and SC/STs as most corrupt. What he should be criticised for is bad theory #ThatsJustWrong #Corruption #JLF #JLF 2013 #OBCs and SC/STs #Upper Classes
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Pillorying of Ashis Nandy: His critics need hearing aids
Dalits and OBCs are treated as sacred cows. We provide them with an official identity kit while trampling their life chances. Nandy was trying to break through that hypocrisy, but unfortunately got caught in a fly trap of populism. #ThatsJustWrong #Corruption #Dalit #OBC #Jaipur Literature Festival #Ashis Nandy #JLF #JLF2013
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Ashis Nandy controversy: HC stays arrest of JLF organiser
Jaipur Literature Festival organisers today got interim relief from Rajasthan High Court which stayed the arrest of the event producer Sanjoy Roy in connection with author Ashis Nandy's controversial remarks regarding Dalits. #NewsTracker #Sanjoy Roy #Ashis Nandy #JLF2013
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Rethinking caste: Why we can't be so one-dimensional
Caste is not cast in stone. Somewhere during colonial rule, it metamorphosed into something more retrograde than it was in earlier times #Ambedkar #Ashis Nandy #JLF 2013 #Caste in India
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Police ask JLF organisers not to leave city till Nandy probe is concluded
Police today asked the organisers of Jaipur Literature Festival not to leave the city till investigation into the case against author Ashis Nandy is over. #NewsTracker #Ashis Nandy #JLF2013
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Live: Police tell JLF organisers not to leave till Nandy probe ends
The festival is winding down, and Firstpost editor Sandip Roy is attending the sessions at the Diggi Palace. These are his updates and observations: #Shobhaa De #Jaipur Literature Festival #Ashis Nandy #JLF2013
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Nandy and the plight of the original thinker in Twitter age
Ashis Nandy's eminence is not worth a vote for Mayawati, Paswan and others baying for his blood. #Mayawati #A Raja #Mulayam Singh #JLF #JLF 2013 #Caste & Corruption
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Kamasutra: Is it about pleasuring women or oppressing them?
Is the Kamasutra just a book for the boys? Or can it be re-imagined? #Jaipur Literature Festival #Pavan Varma #JLF2013 #Kama Sutra #KR Indira