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The Aroma of Democracy: Election 2014. On the smell trail – Chawm Ganguly.

Ever wonder how Election smells? The long queue in the local Secondary School with the acrid odor of walls that have received a fresh coat of paint and the offensive stench of overflowing urinals that have been sought to be neutralized by the sprinkling of Election Commission ordained bleaching powder? That smell of an untimed Holi …

Social Media and the politics of the gutter going mainstream – Chawm Ganguly

Should those who live in a Photoshopped World be prepared to die a digital death, or do they simply be prepared to troll away to social media oblivion? She was once unceremoniously thrown out of the Writer’s Building, literally by the mane of her hair, for having the temerity of sitting in a “dharna” outside …