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Statutory warning: Countries with such low levels of humanity could die

Nirbhaya 'asked for it'. The Unnao victim is 'low class'. They were all treated like dispensable junk. There can be no justice just enough

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Mitali Saran
I hadn’t scheduled a health check in 14 years, because between one thing (drinking) and another (smoking), I hadn’t had the time. My mother nagged me so much that finally last week I bit the bullet and had a top-to-toe medical exam, shaking in my shoes because the internet had already confirmed that I was mortally ill. It came as a great surprise to me, therefore, and greater still to my mother, to learn that I’m healthy as a horse. There’s nothing like the what-a-relief smoke. 

And yet this week I’m sick as a dog. Sick to my stomach, in