The Meena Kumari politics

Last two years’ electoral politics has made one thing clear: You no longer win elections in India by reminding people how awfully rotten their fate is. Particularly when you and your party have been governing them most of the time. This young, aware India is aspirational, impatient and unforgiving. This is no longer a country of Meena Kumaris. Those of my vintage will know what I mean. But for the younger readers, Meena Kumari was the tragedy queen of the sixties and the entire theatre broke out...

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