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Absence of Civility

The Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, takes the cake when it comes to using crass and vulgar language. Her predilection to use street language, which is frequently laced with profanities, has eroded the very standard of social decency. And members of the Trinamul Congress speak the language of the common people and not the refined language of the bhadralok politicians.

Post-Truth Europe ~ I

The Oxford dictionary has decided to anoint “post-truth” as the word of the year 2016. The dictionary defines this as…