Hard News - Circle of Unreason

It’s time to celebrate a Festival of the BANNED

Hardnews — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:41:19 +0000

Amit Sengupta

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks.

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FEBRUARY 2012

F1 Ra.One Bar One

Hardnews — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:41:04 +0000

Amit Sengupta

...That which is for me through the medium of money – that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) – that am I myself, the possessor of the money.

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NOVEMBER 2011

So when is ANNA PART III?

Hardnews — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:24:54 +0000

Amit Sengupta

Shayad woh galtiyon ka ehsaas kar raha hai
Peeta nahin lahu ab, 'upvaas' kar raha hai
Nafrat ke jism par hai 'sadbhavana' ka chola

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OCTOBER 2011

Garbage is Divine!

Hardnews — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:03:50 +0000

Amit Sengupta

Reports say more than 11,000 tonnes of garbage was found at Ramlila Ground after the fast-unto-death cum indefinite fast cum free-for-all carnival reached a cathartic climax.

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SEPTEMBER 2011

TV Prophets and Brand Anna

Hardnews — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 07:52:37 +0000

Amit Sengupta

There is a cynical stream of consciousness stalking the Indian landscape, angry and angst-ridden, seething with disgust at the web of corruption which has trapped the regime, the

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AUGUST 2011

A night written in ink

Hardnews — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:10:57 +0000

Amit Sengupta

Like in a Ruskin Bond story, where he chases a mountain stream through a maze of little wild pink mountain flowers in synthesis with the thin, delicate leaf and stem in bright gr

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JULY 2011

Rain in a War Zone

Hardnews — Thu, 26 May 2011 10:06:50 +0000

Amit Sengupta

The white, vicious, inevitable heat arrived in concealed slow motion, like a rattlesnake in an unwinding desert with no visions or hallucinations or illusions of an oasis, slithering and gliding in

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JUNE 2011

It’s a rich man’s world

Hardnews — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:53:09 +0000

Amit Sengupta

There is a slow, seething upheaval growing like a suppressed volcano across the country and the advisers of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, as well as the esteemed members of the National Advisory Council,

An evening star in a prison

Hardnews — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:24:53 +0000

Amit Sengupta

Let's not forget he is still in jail, in solitary confinement, outside the 'national debate' on ethics and absence of ethics post Wikileaks, forgotten by the Indian Parliament, and the 'secular' ru

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APRIL 2011

Nothing happens in India

Hardnews — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 07:09:10 +0000

Amit Sengupta

Even the American empire, which has compulsively backed most of the retrograde, repressive, ruthless monarchies and dictatorships in the Middle East, are surprised.

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MARCH 2011