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THE BJP HAVE TOPPLED DEMOCRATIC VALUES IN MADHYA PRADESH
The Bharatiya Janta Party has wreaked havoc and played with the voter’s emotions in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The saffron unit’s latest coup has come after the incumbent chief minister of the state Kamal Nath resigned on Thursday before the scheduled floor test was about to take place. Mr Nath stated that he… Continue reading
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FORMER CJI’S APPOINTMENT TO PARLIAMENT WILL INCREASE THE PUBLIC’S DISTRUST IN THE JUDICIARY
Former Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi was inducted into the Upper House of Parliament, the Rajya Sabha on Thursday on the basis of a recommendation made by the President of India. This comes months after Mr Gogoi retired and goes against the common etiquettes and standards of appointing recently retired public servants in higher… Continue reading
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THE NEW MANCHESTER UNITED HAVE ARRIVED, AND THEY ARE HERE TO STAY
Manchester United drew blood across their cross-city neighbours Manchester City in an unusually subdued Manchester derby at Old Trafford in the Premier League on Sunday. Goals from Anthony Martial and Scott McTominay ensured that Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s men moved up to fifth in the league table, and as things stand now, in a Champions League… Continue reading
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Opinion: RELEGATION-THREATENED WEST HAM MUST NOT LOSE HEART FROM ARSENAL DEFEAT
Arsenal won a tight game against West Ham United in a London derby at the Emirates Stadium on Saturday after much of it proclaimed that it was destined to be drawn. Bukayako Saka’s late run on the left-wing gave the Gunners acres of space and after he passed the ball to Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, who… Continue reading
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MORNING LIGHT
It’s an unending saga of finality and hope; That’s all he has known from the outside And everything that came inside love’s envelope Bites him but he takes it in his stride. Of an attachment going beyond words And a bond which moves past hearsay, Can’t escape being seen going backwards, It’s time to… Continue reading
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SHADOWS
It’s not you but a very close resemblance of your scarf falling across your neck like a bent leaf trudging across the windows of an old brownstone laced with rust; it’s not you but the everlasting smell of teenage regret and images of an unexciting and aggrieved past. It’s not your voice but the… Continue reading
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LET THEM KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS
Bouts of hatred sugarcoated with precision hanging precariously by a thread which unravels in a world threatened with collision and warns you as soon as you make the switch to a life of normalcy like a simple decision which usually comes into your life to enrich every known passion associated with man and each… Continue reading
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MAN UNITED CAN TURN THEIR FORTUNES AROUND AGAINST LIVERPOOL
Manchester United v Liverpool FC – Premier League Manchester United take on Liverpool at Old Trafford in a high-voltage clash in Gameweek 9 of the Premier League on Sunday. Two of the oldest clubs in European football will meet in a match that is going to be watched and supported by aficionados across… Continue reading
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HOW MAN CITY CAN GET THEIR PREMIER LEAGUE CAMPAIGN BACK ON TRACK
Manchester City’s manager Pep Guardiola remonstrating with Benjamin Mendy We are eight games into the 2019/20 Premier League season and it already looks like the title race is over. Last season’s finalists (as our American friends would like to call them) Manchester City and Liverpool looked hot favourites to contest for the title… Continue reading
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ON TURNING TWENTY-ONE
Can you tell me some better joke than the one of turning old? The one which the one-eyed bloke for a penny to you had told? What do you make of the folk who shiver in the severe cold, who have no money for a winter cloak while you hoard Mackenna’s Gold? Why… Continue reading
Mohul is a national-level cricketer, poet, sports journalist, travel writer and essayist from Hyderabad, India.
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