Tag: Nalin Verma
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From Lalu’s Lalooland to Gorakhnath’s Legacy: Nalin Verma Tells India’s Untold Stories
good reporter can smell a story from a distance. A great one writes it with a flair that lingers long after the print fades. Nearly four decades ago, I saw in Nalin Verma such a storyteller—someone who knew that journalism wasn’t just about facts, but also about textures, atmosphere, emotion. He could transform the most…
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The Greatest Folk Tales of Bihar revives childhood memories
s a kid I grew up listening to tales my maternal grandma would tell us at night as we slept under the open sky with the stars shining bright in the pollution free sky of our ancestral village in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The tales combined with the surreal beauty of nature would spin a yarn…
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Open Letter to My Muslim Friends– “Do not build mosque on the 5 acres land”
y dear Muslim friends, Honour the Supreme Court’s verdict on Ayodhya. Let the Ram temple come up at the place where the Babri mosque stood till 1992 but don’t accept the five acres of land to build another mosque. The highest court of the land has not made it mandatory upon you accept the offer…
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‘The ruling class has always manipulated law and jurisprudence to criminalise the subaltern people’
‘Author’ Lalu Prasad Yadav — currently languishing in the Birsa Munda Central Jail in Ranchi — considers himself in the league of Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and Mahatma Gandhi, claiming that had these world icons failed in their mission, history would have treated them as villains. Gopalganj To Raisina: My…
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Lalu Prasad Yadav’s book, Gopalganj to Raisina can stir a storm in Indian politics
Kolkata: The autobiography of former Chief Minister of Bihar Lalu Prasad Yadav—Gopalganj to Raisina which can stir a storm in the Indian politics is all set to get public. By Sunday the book will be available across India, however, there will be no formal launch for it. Senior journalist Nalin Verma has co-authored the book…