What India Lost in 2020

30/12/2020

The Wire / by Zobia Salam

There’s little room for doubt about one thing: 2020 was, undeniably, the year of loss. A loss of time, opportunity, plans, possibilities but above all, of lives.
In many ways, 2020 has been a surreal year. Some have called it the ‘longest year in existence’. For others, months flew by like minutes.
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An accidental, anecdotal year appears like a planned sequence with majoritarianism as prelude and chorus

30/12/2020

The Leaflet by Shiv Visvanathan

A year ends in emptiness and the media will not notice it. India has become a post-truth regime in 2021. If that statement is antinational so be it as a tribute to all the great dissenters languishing in jail. It is Sudha Bharadwaj and Stan Swamy who might redeem this year, says Shiv Visvanathan.
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