: Winter has come: The arrest of Teesta Setalvad #IndiaNEWS It was a mild winter day in 1993 when I went to the home of Prem and Indra Pasricha, my grand uncle and grand aunt. I always enjoyed going

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Winter has come: The arrest of Teesta Setalvad #IndiaNEWS
It was a mild winter day in 1993 when I went to the home of Prem and Indra Pasricha, my grand uncle and grand aunt. I always enjoyed going to their apartment in Scindia House in Connaught Place, New Delhi, because the parathas were always delicious and because the langurs always seem to make a visit to their roof (some years later, these monkeys attacked my frail grand aunt). But there was something misplaced about these visits.I had become involved in the Left movement and was a vocal opponent of the Ram Janmabhoomi campaign by the Bharatiya Janata Party and its various organisations to destroy the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and to erect a Ram temple on that site. Uncle Prem and Aunty Indra, loving as they were to me, held diametrically opposed viewpoints. Hum mandir vahi banayenge, we will build the temple there, he would chant from his sofa, a cup of tea balanced perilously on his lap. I would argue with him, but to no avail. He was older and more experienced, and I would splutter in the face of what I saw as the ugliness of bigotry. And besides, he respected the fact that I could finish off the crossword...Read more

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