Tuesday, August 12
Trigger-Happy Times
Congratulations, Abhinav Bindra. India has won its first Olympic gold medal in an individual event. Field hockey used to be the only Olympic sport in which India was a contender, but this year the national team failed to even 
qualify. In the six Olympics prior, the hockey team hadn’t made it as far as the semi-finals. Now, it seems, Indians are finally good at something again: short-range shooting.
Which brings me to the second item on the front page of the broadsheets: police shot at unarmed protest-marchers in Kashmir, killing five people, including a member of the Hurriyat Conference. Eight more protestors have been shot dead today.
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qualify. In the six Olympics prior, the hockey team hadn’t made it as far as the semi-finals. Now, it seems, Indians are finally good at something again: short-range shooting.Which brings me to the second item on the front page of the broadsheets: police shot at unarmed protest-marchers in Kashmir, killing five people, including a member of the Hurriyat Conference. Eight more protestors have been shot dead today.
Continued at Pass the Roti...
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Outlook Traveller dispatched me to Paris for a week, to write about the city in the summer. I complained bitterly, but they insisted. The story - my first piece of travel writing, apart from Jaunpur - is the cover of their August issue.
