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From The Discomfort Zone: Vive le crayon!
What auto-censored traditional media could not say, Charlie Hebdo ripped apart without any frontier.
From the discomfort zone: Salt, sugar, pepper politics
On returning to India, I find pepper, salt and sugar have a totally different aspect at the social level.
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Opulence anaesthetises
Outside OT,theres permanent anaesthesia that people can get from which they dont wake up.
Spiralling trend
The perspective of what's good and convenient for rural women cannot be decided by urban women or by politicians who want to do good.
A century of change
Exactly a hundred years ago,in 1914,we had encountered one of last centurys most remarkable years.
From the discomfort Zone: The legalities of prostitution
HRD Ministry survey reveals that prostitution is increasing and 60 per cent of girls belong to SC,ST,BC and two-thirds of prostitute families live below the poverty line.
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From the Discomfort Zone: Artists canvas of tea seller vs dynasty prince
The new game now is railway station tea seller vs political dynasty prince.
'Degenerate' art
Adolf Hitlers obsession with attaining Aryan purity for Germany included cleansing culture and art.
From the discomfort Zone: Speaking Art
I came from Paris to meet the art lover on the last day of the exhibition.
Artist-muse rapport
He was 75 when we met. I initially figured that his 45-year-old wife was his daughter; they had a 12-year-old son.
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