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Vedanta sponsored Jaipur Literature Festival disrupted in London

by rti_adminon May 21, 2016March 20, 20230

20th May 2016 A group of protesters from a wide range of organisations today disrupted the Jaipur Literature Festival at London’s Southbank Centre, taking over the stage with their placards and giving shouted speeches to the eminent audience about the multiple criminal convictions and abusive pattern of operation of the festival’s main sponsor, the …

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The Emperor Has No Clothes

by rti_adminon January 30, 2013March 20, 20230

Dr. N. Sukumar Ashis Nandy’s observations at the Jaipur Literary Festival have created a furore. Inadvertently, it has exposed the shallow foundations of our academic elite. Suddenly, the brahmanical lobby is forced to go on the defensive and is tying itself up in knots providing all kinds of explanations. The Ashis Nandy fan club …