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SC dismisses plea against clean chit to BJP’s Anurag Thakur, Parvesh Verma in hate speech case

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SC dismisses plea against clean chit to BJP’s Anurag Thakur, Parvesh Verma in hate speech case

[ad_1] The Supreme Court has dismissed a petition seeking review of its April decision, which held that no cognisable offence had been made out against Bharatiya Janata Party leaders Anurag Thakur and Parvesh Verma for alleged acts of hate speech in 2020, reported Bar and Bench on Monday. At a rally in January 2020, Thakur … Read more

Anurag Banerjee on his book on Meghalaya’s music scene

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Anurag Banerjee on his book on Meghalaya’s music scene

[ad_1] I met Anurag Banerjee just after his friend’s poetry reading at the Shillong Literature Festival. He has a kind of easy, affable presence that draws interruptions: he left one friend to walk with me, was stopped mid-sentence by another during our conversation, and ran into someone else as soon as we finished. In a … Read more