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Snapshot of the day

March 18, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

It’s the first week of the election campaign and Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already begun appealing for votes on the basis of religion : “We dedicated the point where the Chandrayan landed as Shiv Shakti Point, we have dedicated it to Shiv