Modi Gets Eleventh Hour G7 Invite from Canada; Bangladesh Elections in April 2026; Supreme Court’s Contempt Dilemma
Recessionary trends, automation, employer dissatisfaction influence low placement numbers, Ram temple prasad becomes bait in ₹3.85 crore cyber con, why Indians get lost in their cities
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Over to Siddharth Varadarajan for today’s Cable
Snapshot of the day
June 6, 2025
Siddharth Varadarajan
Barely a week before the G7 summit and ‘outreach’ begins in Kananaskis, Canada on June 15, Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally scored an invitation from his Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney. Modi rushed to broadcast the news about his attending the summit, though the words he chose for his tweet deliberately sought to create ambiguity about when exactly the invitation was proffered:
“Glad to receive a call from Prime Minister @MarkJCarney of Canada. Congratulated him on his recent election victory and thanked him for the invitation to the G7 Summit in Kananaskis later this month. As vibrant democracies bound by deep people-to-people ties, India and Canada will work together with renewed vigour, guided by mutual respect and shared interests. Look forward to our meeting at the Summit.”
With no Canadian invitation in sight, Modi and his advisors have been on tenterhooks for the past two weeks. He has attended the annual G7 summit as an ‘outreach’ partner since 2019—prior to that, Manmohan Singh was a regular participant—so the lack of an invite would have been seen as a setback for the ‘vishwaguru’. In fact, over the past 48 hours, regime-friendly media outlets appear to have been primed to unleash stories bashing the G7 for its ‘irrelevance’, in a presumed effort at spinning Modi’s likely absence as a ‘positive’ for India. (It’ll be fun to watch them do a u-turn now).
India’s relations with Canada have been at an all-time low following the Canadian government’s claim that the 2023 assassination of a Khalistani activist in British Columbia, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was the handiwork of the Indian government. New Delhi used the accusation to downgrade diplomatic relations as a means of putting pressure on Ottawa and had hoped that the resignation of Justin Trudeau as Canadian PM would pave the way for his successor to bury the Nijjar file. That has not happened so far and is unlikely to in the future either. Last week, Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand spoke to Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and told reporters later, “We are certainly taking it one step at a time. As I mentioned, the rule of law will never be compromised, and there is an ongoing investigation regarding the case that you mentioned,” she said in a reference to Nijjar’s murder.
In fact, the Canadian government’s readout of the Carney-Modi call flags the facts that the two leaders spoke about and agreed to “continued law enforcement dialogue and discussions addressing security concerns” and only then notes that the Canadian PM also extended an invitation to Modi to attend the G7 meet. Carney’s own tweet does not even mention the invitation directly.
It is highly unusual for VVIP invitations to a pre-scheduled event to be sent so late. In 2024, Modi received his invitation for G7 summit in Italy in April, seven weeks before the actual event. The fact that this invitation went down to the wire raises the question of whether the Canadian side sought and received certain assurances from Modi as a condition for attendance. Stay tuned.
Bangladesh’s chief adviser, Dr Mohammad Yunus today announced that general elections will be held in early April 2026. With the Awami League out of the race, the main contenders are the Bangladesh Nationalist Party of Khaleda Zia, the newly created National Citizen Party formed by leaders of the July 2024 uprising against Sheikh Hasina, and the Jamaat-e-Islami.
A night after police in Bengaluru reportedly arrested an official of the Karnataka State Cricket Association and three members of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in connection with Wednesday's deadly stampede, the Karnataka high court has held the police back from taking coercive action against officials of the KSCA. Nikhil Sosale, the RCB's marketing and revenue chief, has argued that his arrest was illegal, per Cricbuzz.
The state government has also fired MLC K Govindaraj as political secretary to chief minister Siddaramaiah. The News Minute, which reported yesterday that the government had given oral permission to the victory celebration that had devolved into a stampede, writes that “with this action it has become evident that Govindaraj has most likely played a key role in facilitating” the event.
Whatever the responsibility of key individuals, it is evident that the Sidaramaiah government’s handling of the aftermath of the Bangalore stampede is markedly different from the Adiyanath government’s handling of the deadly Kumbh Mela stampede earlier this year. Indeed today the Allahabad High Court pulled up the UP government for showing “apathy towards the plight of the citizen”.
The recent conflict between India and Pakistan did not compel Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit Kashmir – but the inauguration of a historic railway line, the Katra-Srinagar Vande Bharat Express, did. On Friday, Modi unveiled one of India’s most ambitious infrastructure projects: a 272-kilometre line beginning in Udhampur in the Jammu region and running through to Srinagar. The line ends in Baramulla, a town near the Line of Control with Pakistan.
While “officials say the train will help the troubled region … many Kashmiris see it as a tool to entrench the Indian government’s control,” reports The New York Times. “They are building this for outsiders, not for us,” Afnan Fayaz, a law student, told NYT as she stood on a rail platform during a trial run in January. “They want to make it easier for soldiers and tourists to come here.”
It has been more than 24 hours, but India has, so far, maintained a studied silence over Pakistan’s appointment as vice-chair of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee and chair of the Taliban Sanctions Committee, with the Congress describing the development as a “sad story of our own foreign policy collapse”. The BJP opted not to rise to the bait but the irony of the development was not lost on anyone, particularly as it comes close on the heels of the Modi government’s all-party outreach to 33 nations – many of them permanent and non-permanent members of the UNSC – to mobilise opinion against Pakistan and its use of terrorism as state policy. It is now clear that none of the members of the UNSC sought to stall Pakistan’s selection to the position despite India’s outreach efforts.
Reacting to the UNSC decision, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said his party would urge the government to take appropriate diplomatic steps to “de-hyphenate India and Pakistan on the global stage.” Shiv Sena UBT MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also criticised the UNSC’s decision to hand Pakistan two key posts, saying, “Repeat after me, UNSC is a joke!” Pawan Khera of the Congress alleged that this showed a “foreign policy collapse”.
The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has credited it’s No. 15 Squadron, the “Cobras,” with downing six Indian jets during the May 7 aerial clash. As IAF fighters gathered near the border past midnight, PAF scrambled its J-10Cs, which, using PL-15 missiles, reportedly brought down Rafales – undermining India’s so-called “game-changers.” The Cobras’ role in the 5/7 showdown is being hailed by Pakistan as a major aerial victory though India has not confirmed nor denied the claims. India’s Chief of Defence Staff has acknowledged the loss of some aircraft but dismissed Pakistan’s claim that the total number was six.
Meanwhile, Pakistani defence minister Khawaja Asif has declared the 1972 Simla Agreement “a dead document,” signalling a shift in Islamabad’s posture on Kashmir. Asif said Pakistan has reverted to the 1948 UN-backed stance, calling the Line of Control a ceasefire line rather than a recognised boundary. “Going forward, these disputes will be dealt with multilaterally or internationally,” he said. The Defence Minister didn’t stop there. He cast doubt on other accords, saying, “Whether the Indus Waters Treaty is suspended or not, Simla is already over.”
The United States Supreme Court has reinstated efforts to enforce a US$1.4 billion arbitral award against the Indian government-owned Antrix Corporation, reports Bar and Bench. In a unanimous ruling, the Court held that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) does not require plaintiffs to demonstrate that Antrix maintained “minimum contacts” with the US for jurisdiction to be established. This decision allows the enforcement suit filed by Mauritius-based CC/Devas and India-based Devas Multimedia to proceed in US courts. The ruling overturns a 2023 judgment by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which had dismissed the case on the grounds that Antrix lacked sufficient ties to the US. The dispute stemmed from a 2005 satellite deal under the UPA government; Antrix cancelled it in 2011 citing India’s revised policy on S-band spectrum allocation
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) have decided to name their upcoming Test series after two cricketing legends, Sachin Tendulkar and James Anderson. As per ESPNcricinfo, the prestigious cup will now be known as the “Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.” However, cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle notes that the new name overlooks the rich legacy of the erstwhile Pataudi Trophy, which reflected the unique connection the Pataudi family had to both nations. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi and his father both played for Sussex, with the senior Pataudi having represented both England and India, while the junior Pataudi set schoolboy batting records in England. “There was a very nice ring to the Pataudi Trophy,” Bhogle reflects.
In a striking admission of the continued threat from Pakistan-backed militants, the Modi government has rolled out unprecedented VVIP-style security for this year’s Amarnath Yatra – just weeks after the much-publicised Operation Sindoor. Nearly 581 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs), jammers, drones, K9 units and 24/7 cyber monitoring will blanket the pilgrimage route, reports The Tribune. Quick-reaction teams, road-opening parties and paramilitary escorts will guard the two designated tracks in response to the recent Pahalgam terror attack. In a telling move, the pilgrimage has also been shortened to 38 days this year, down from 52 in 2024. The heavy security raises a serious question: if Operation Sindoor was meant to deliver a decisive blow to cross-border terror networks, why does India still need wartime-level protection for pilgrims?
Speaking of which, there is a pressing need to address the IAF’s concerns over industry’s failed promises and missed deadlines, says ex-Senior Air Staff Officer, Western Air Command, Air Marshal Diptendu Choudhury (retd). He writes,
“In the absence of accountability, the harsh fact is that the IAF’s declining numbers of combat and support platforms have created an ever-increasing inventory gap due to the inadequate future ‘fill rate’ and is already in an irrecoverable downward spiral.
Future inductions will no longer be able to close the gap unless the industry achieves a substantial production capacity. Slippages snowball further into delays in induction, operationalisation, training and development of employment tactics. The capacity shortcoming in the industry’s maintenance, repair and overhaul, as this means that a significant number of platforms are always waiting in long queues, and therefore there are lesser platforms available on the flight line. The reduced numbers are weakening India’s conventional deterrence, especially in view of the unique twin-adversary multi-front threat.”
Under the Modi government, India’s reliance on China for pharmaceutical raw materials has increased, despite repeated pledges to reduce it. In 2017, after the Doklam standoff, India first announced plans to curb Chinese imports. Yet, by 2024-25, China accounts for 74.1% of India’s bulk drug and drug intermediate imports – up from around 60% in 2013-14. In 2024-25 alone, India imported $4.6 billion worth of these materials, with nearly three-fourths coming from China. Years later, the Modi government now aims to expand the Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme to cover more essential pharmaceutical inputs. So much for ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’.
According to the International Energy Agency, China and India have approved the largest volume of new coal-fired power plant construction in a decade, aiming to strengthen their energy security. In 2024, China authorised nearly 100 gigawatts of new coal capacity, while India approved an additional 15 gigawatts – driving global approvals to their highest level since 2015, the Paris-based agency notes.
Kerala minister P. Prasad boycotted a sapling plantation event in the state governor’s house in Thiruvananthapuram on World Environment Day, objecting to floral tributes to a Bharat Mata portrait. “Such a ritual has never been part of official events at the Raj Bhawan [governor’s house]… It is against the Constitution. The governor’s office insisted on it. We are not against Bharat Mata…we often have children dressing up as Bharat Mata at government events and official Onam celebrations,” said Prasad, noting however that the representation of Bharat Mata is something the RSS promotes. Prasad skipped the event and later planted saplings separately.
The Prime Ministers Museum and Library, previously known as the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, has got a new director – former Air India chief Ashwani Lohani – months after the post fell vacant. Lohani’s appointment is for three years.
Trump’s crackdown on international students coming to the US will disproportionately hurt India. It will also (per last year’s numbers) result in a $44 billion hit to the US economy. Meanwhile, India, the world’s top recipient of remittances at $129B annually – with $32B from the US alone – faces a potential setback from Trump’s proposed 5% remittance tax. The BBC has more on it here.
A 24-year old under-trial prisoner was killed at the Saket courts complex in front of 34 eyewitnesses while the police looked on, unable to get inside the court lockup, reports The Hindustan Times. The victim, Aman Poddar, was attacked by two fellow inmates on Wednesday inside the lock-up block while waiting to be produced in court. Anil Basoya, secretary of the Saket Bar Association, said, “This is unprecedented. There were no weapons used, but the circumstances that allowed it are deeply troubling.”’
Nine years after JNU student Najeeb Ahmed disappeared, the case remains unsolved and the Central Bureau of Investigation wants to file a closure report.
The Trump administration's decision to ban Afghan citizens from entering the US (with some exceptions) has devastated many, including those who were waiting in Qatar and Pakistan for an opportunity to travel to America. Khalid Khan, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan, told the Associated Press the ban could expose many people like him to arrest as the Pakistani government – which has recently accelerated its deportation of undocumented Afghans – had left them alone on instructions from the US embassy. He added: “Returning to Afghanistan will jeopardise my daughter’s education … The Taliban have banned girls from attending school beyond sixth grade. My daughter will remain uneducated if we return.”
Now sentenced to 26 months by a US court for an anti-Sikh hate crime, an Indian-American man has said he will “cut the hair of every Sikh” and threatened to kill his Muslim co-worker’s family. The Quint profiles him here.
Recessionary trends, automation, employer dissatisfaction influence low placement numbers
The placement situation isn't looking so good this year across engineering, management and other professional courses, with many firms pausing fresher onboarding even as they have issued offer letters, and others delaying giving offers or freezing the interview process, Lijee Philip and Rica Bhattacharyya report from Mumbai, citing college officials and placement coordinators. Employers on the other hand say that a combination of recessionary trends, disruptions related to AI and a ‘perceived lack of preparedness among students’ are to blame.
Meanwhile, at TCS and Infosys, the share of those younger than 30 among their employees decreased by about 12 percentage points each in FY25 as compared to FY22. This, reports Jas Bardia, can be attributed to a mix of narrower profit margins and automation driven by AI, as well as younger people being drawn to startups, tech centres captive to global firms and software makers due to higher pay, faster growth and more creative work. At any rate this trend may be a signal that the traditional ‘employee pyramid’ where a “wide base of younger workforce supports a narrower band of experienced professionals and management” may need to be rethought, Bardia writes.
India may be better off diversifying arms imports by looking to smaller European, advanced Asian countries
With Russia embroiled in its war with Ukraine and increasingly coming under China’s influence; with Israel occupied with conflict at home; and with the turbulence in America under Donald Trump as well as Washington’s restrictive conditions on defence cooperation, it makes sense for India to diversify its procurement by seeking collaboration with smaller European and technologically advanced Asian countries. These nations tend to “separate defence commerce from geopolitical agendas” and focus instead on “industrial logic”, explains Rahul Bedi.
How fair is the ‘fair use’ being cited by creators a la Mohak Mangal?
Do the arguments made by those like YouTuber Mohak Mangal in favour of their use of short clippings of ANI footage in long videos actually hold up against Indian copyright law? Some say that the test for whether such use passes muster is qualitative and not quantitative; some others say that fair use is a thing in India and some creators' use of ANI footage would indeed fall under its ambit. Then there is YouTube's policy of taking down entire channels with three copyright strikes filed against them: is this in consonance with Indian law? Vineet Bhalla speaks to experts to get their take.
Ram temple prasad becomes bait in ₹3.85 crore cyber con
Turns out even devotion is not safe from digital deception. In what may go down as Ayodhya’s holiest cyber scam, a fraudster channeled divine vibes into Rs 3.85 crore by selling fake prasad from the newly consecrated Ram Temple – because nothing says spirituality like getting scammed online. Ashish Singh, a Ghaziabad native turned American ‘professor’ (self-appointed, of course), launched a sketchy site promising free delivery of prasad, temple replicas, and commemorative coins. The catch? A not-so-divine Rs 51 “facilitation fee” in India and $11 for NRI bhakts with deeper wallets. The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust smelled something fishy – not the prasad, but the payments. One alert to the Ayodhya Cyber Crime Unit later, the temple town had its own Catch Me If You Can, saffron edition. Moral of the story? In the digital age, even gods need two-step verification.
The Long Cable
Justice, Speech and Selective Outrage: The Supreme Court’s Contempt Dilemma
Rekha Sharma
On May 30, a Supreme Court bench headed by the Chief Justice of India initiated suo motu criminal contempt proceedings against Ajay Shukla, a Chandigarh-based journalist, for posting a video on YouTube allegedly containing scathing and scandalous remarks against some senior judges of the Supreme Court.
The bench observed that though the Constitution guarantees to every citizen the right to freedom of speech and expression, this is subject to reasonable restrictions and that such a right does not permit someone to defame a judge or bring into disrepute the institution of the judiciary. Having said so, the court directed that the offending video be taken down forthwith. It also asked the Attorney General and the Solicitor General to assist the court on the next date of hearing. Though the video is no longer available, it is widely believed that contain some allegedly objectionable remarks against Justice Suryakant, who is next in line for the Chief Justiceship, and Justice Bela M. Trivedi, who is due to retire on June 9, 2025.
It may be stated, at the very outset, that the dignity, majesty and honour of the Supreme Court, or for that matter any court of justice must be protected at all cost by every person including by the Supreme Court itself. That said, fair criticism of a judicial decision and the conduct of a judge – provided it is done in good faith and on accurate facts – also needs to be equally protected. In this background, while no one can question the right and the prerogative of the Supreme Court to initiate criminal contempt proceedings against Shukla, the action taken has given rise to certain questions.
Not very long ago, highly objectionable and vicious remarks were made by Nishikant Dubey, a Lok Sabha member of the ruling party, against the then CJI, Justice Sanjiv Khanna. Dubey held him singularly responsible for all the alleged ‘civil wars’ in the country. He also alleged that the Supreme Court was taking the country towards anarchy. These remarks were not only highly toxic and outrageous, they had the potential to rock the very foundation of our judicial system and erode the people’s faith in the judiciary and almost bordered on ‘blasphemy’. And yet, even though the fountain head of the judiciary was personally targeted, it neither caused any stir nor a ripple. There was a sphinx like silence. No judge deemed it fit to issue any suo motu criminal contempt notice against the errant MP. It was the Supreme Court Bar Association which raised its voice, and urged the Attorney General to grant consent for initiating contempt proceedings against Dubey. The AG neither on his own nor on the request of the Bar Association has till date given or declined to give his consent. This, despite the fact that he as the first law officer of the country, has a duty to uphold the dignity and majesty of the court of which he is an integral part.
It ultimately fell on the lot of Justice Khanna himself to give a befitting response to the likes of Dubey. Though the bench headed by him dismissed a petition which sought contempt action against the MP, he gave a very measured and dignified response to him. Holding that the comments were highly irresponsible and reflected a penchant to attract attention by casting aspersions on the Supreme Court and its judges, he wrote that the courts are not so fragile as flowers to wither and wilt under such ludicrous statements. He further observed, “We do not believe that the confidence and the credibility of the courts in the eyes of the public can be shaken by such statements”. Kudos to Justice Sanjiv Khanna for such a befitting response.
Going by media reports, Justice Bela Trivedi who has not been given a farewell by the Supreme Court Bar Association, Court, in the alleged video of Ajay Shukla. The CJI is reported to have expressed his disapproval over the decision of the Bar Association, and so has Justice A.G. Masih, who said that tradition must be followed. It is for the first time in the history of the Supreme Court that such a tradition has been broken. The bar, it is said, is the judge of the judges. It is not for nothing that Justice Bela Trivedi has been denied the honour of a farewell by the bar. The question is why did things come to such a pass? It should set both bench and bar thinking. Undoubtedly, a long standing tradition has been broken but, then, judgeship is not a blank cheque. It comes with responsibility. The bar not only helps judges make the justice delivery system work, it also acts as a watchdog. The bar has, by its action, sent a loud and clear message.
It is time for judges to remember that they too are under watch. They may, in a given case, fail to grasp some suspected hidden meaning of a column written in English by an Oxford educated professor and leave the job of deciphering it to some police officer, and that too not from a particular state. But if they fail to take action against a minister who made a highly objectionable statement in simple and understandable Hindi, it does raise eyebrows. It is in such matters that the bar has to play its role. And, if it does play its role, there should be no protest.
Rekha Sharma is a former judge of the Delhi high court
Reportedly
Is Yogi Adityanath positioning himself in anticipation of pressure building up on Modi to quit once he turns 75? Piyush Srivastava reads the saffron leaves:
“Yogi Adityanath on Thursday conducted a second consecration at the Ram temple in Ayodhya, making it a point to emphasise that the Prime Minister had presided over the first, at a time when he is aggressively positioning himself as Narendra Modi’s political successor.”
(For the record, the 75-year-rule is Modi’s creation but his de facto No 2, Amit Shah, has already said this rule will not apply to the Dear Leader.)
Deep dive
“The India-UK free trade agreement may serve as a model for a future deal with the EU,” writes Biswajit Dhar. “However, talks with the US risk introducing tough terms into a bilateral pact. As imports rise through these FTAs, India can benefit only if it boosts exports by leveraging market access and supporting exporters.”
Prime number: 5.5%
The RBI's repo rate now stands at 5.5% with its Monetary Policy Committee having voted 5-1 to further reduce it by 0.5 basis points. This marks the committee's third consecutive rate cut since February, when governor Sanjay Malhotra took office. He said in a statement today that “today’s monetary policy actions should be seen as a step towards propelling growth to a higher aspirational trajectory” amid an “uncertain” global environment. He also said that after the one percentage point cut in the repo rate – the interest rate at which the RBI lends to banks – since February, “monetary policy is left with very limited space to support growth”.Opeds you don’t want to miss
“By refusing to challenge any of the state’s securitization framings over the last decade, in domestic policy, as well as in foreign affairs, the opposition has contributed to the shrinking of the political discourse in India,” writes Sarayu Pani on the Opposition’s silence which has let the BJP diminish India’s political discourse.
Andy Mukherjee looks at India’s ‘lofty equity valuations’ and wonders why investors keep buying a narrative is ‘pure Bollywood’.
The fact that Trinamool Congress leader Anubrata Mondal was made to appear before the police only after considerable outrage against an audio clip where he seems to issue graphic rape threats to two women “highlights a disturbing truth” – “issuing rape threats to women, even those with significant power, does not really stir the polity”, notes Aparna Bhattacharya. Indeed, in West Bengal, she illustrates how politicians “big and small see misogyny as a quick method of gaining traction”.
“It’s convenient for governments to pick on the weakest to show how decisive and strong they are,” writes Kalpana Sharma about the contrast between the hype over Op Sindoor and the dumping of Rohingya refugees off the coast of Myanmar.
As a UN fact-finding team noted earlier this year, the proclivity of Bangladeshi leaders to weaponise the system against their rivals was mitigated by citizens being able to vote the incumbent out of power, which in turn was enabled by the institution of the ‘caretaker government’ that took charge just before an election. Sheikh Hasina's Awami League did away with this institution in 2008, but reinstating it and “establishing robust constitutional safeguards for it could serve as a significant legacy for Yunus and the government he heads”, writes Sanjib Baruah in a piece where he also acknowledges the murkiness of Hasina being potentially tried in absentia.
What is it about the coastal region of Karnataka that has allowed violent Hindutva groups to flourish, asks Shivasundar. There are many factors but he also blames the Congress: “Apart from a handful of retiring secular leaders within the coastal Congress, the majority of current leaders are ideologically aligned with the Sanghis.”
Listen up
Talks are underway on amending India's nuclear liability laws to make it easier for private companies to build and run nuclear power plants here. To discuss these proposed amendments, the issue of technology transfers and more, Ashley Tellis and D Raghunandan join Kunal Shanker in Parley.
Watch out
Srinath Raghavan, author of the new book Indira Gandhi and the Years That Transformed India, explains to Karan Thapar why the Emergency she imposed was “the single most traumatic experience in independent India’s political history” especially if the violence of Partition is excluded.
Over and out
Indians grapple with the problem of “being lost all the time” due to our unhelpful and/or multiple property addresses. This isn't just a mild annoyance: for instance “businesses such as logistics, deliveries and e-commerce face higher costs and lower productivity” and “Uber drivers squander fuel and time looking for the right place”, The Economist points out. Banks too face headaches owing to multiple address systems. All of this confusion could be costing us 0.5% of GDP per one estimate, and while the government has a solution, it may not be the best one out there, the magazine warns.
The 1857 capture of Delhi was planned, not a sudden uprising by ‘angry men’, says historian Sohail Hashmi.
Peter Augustus Alvares was a freedom fighter, trade unionist, parliamentarian and champion of the socialist movement in India. Alvares played a key role in Goa’s liberation movement from Portuguese rule and was later elected Goa’s first MP to the Lok Sabha. Qurban Ali honours Alvares who “relentlessly fought for the rights of the working class and gave immense momentum to the trade union movement in India.”
Comedian Vir Das says that love is complicated – especially when it is two egos too big for one spotlight, and not enough spine between them to share it.
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