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From Tanishq To Bangladesh, India’s Thin Skin Is Stretched
How stoic and tolerant we were, once. But so shrill, so quick to offend, and oh so thin-skinned, now, writes Raghav Bahl.
21 Oct 2020, 12:47 PM IST
Indians are forever searching to hit the top spot in something or anything, somewhere or anywhere—for example, consider the triumphalism that Senator Kamala Harris will be the first ‘Indian’ to rule America—and before you can say ‘pyrrhic’, we’re out clanging utensils in balconies or dancing drunk on streets or tweet-thumping exaggerated boasts or posting cheesy memes on Instagram.
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