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THE ‘LOK TANTRIKS’

Politics is a high-stress profession in these turbulent, uncertain times. So its frazzled practitioners have enough and his band of fugitive rebels had famously sought blessings at Assam’s Kamakhya temple. Goddess Bagalamukhi had been the one to be invoked by a BJP politico in 2019, when the original saffron parivar split. Marathwada politicians apparently propitiate Lord Kuber, the giver of wealth, at a temple in a nearby state. We are in no doubt that they want to set right India’s rank on the World Inequality Index.

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