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Small acts of resistance can shake big narratives

VINAY DWIVEDI, Benaulim
Published May 24
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There cannot be a ruder wake-up call for those who think that by subverting our independent institutions, rigging up the electoral process wholesale, rendering impotent all the media houses, continually stirring the communal pot, and running fake narratives 24x7 through their hydra-headed organisations, they can permanently suppress the democratic spirit of a people determined to hold power accountable.
We have not seen a finer example of a "micro-resistance" that can derail a 12-year narrative than this in a very long time. To be perfectly honest, nobody in his or her right mind thinks that a student on a scholarship in a faraway land who was the cause of this accidental tsunami can change things on his own.
But if this delivers a seismic shock to the mandarins who trample all over us, those who, over the past 12 years, have abandoned all pretence of being by the people, for the people, and of the people, I am not one to complain. Cockroach Janta Party zindabad, wake up and smell the coffee, you vile Sanghis.

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