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A Rejoinder: A tired pun of 'Vande Bharat versus Bharat ke bande'

Does a brave mission amid a global crisis appear small? If the government is trying to give risk-takers a sense of mission and pride, it is the right thing to do

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Suhas Ambale
In a recent piece, provocatively titled ‘Vande Bharat vs Bharat ke bande: Can Narendra Modi be losing his political touch?’ Shekhar Gupta makes an argument that the Modi government turns even a “routine activity” of bringing back Indians stuck in foreign locations into a headline-grabbing event.
 
It looks like someone made a tired pun of Vande Bharat vs Bharat ke Bande and that has been forcibly turned into an article, driven just by a provocative headline.
 
Recently, Gupta had tweeted a headline that said the Modi government wanted a study on whether gangajal can cure Covid-19. However, this
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