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Suited Booted Modi is an attack on my freedom; A poor man explains

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Dear Sagarika Ghose, As an ordinary, unwashed, illiterate, unrefined, non suit wearing Indian, I am thankful to you for taking up the issue of PM Modi’s suits & boots and implications of this sartorial attack on my fundamental freedom via your article here .  I explain in next few paragraphs.                                                 .                                                                                                                                                A Suit  or even a sherwani for that matter, is a symbol of prosperity as it indicates the wearer’s ability to afford one. PM Modi, by wearing a suit despite being a tea seller’s son is provoking us to get out of the comfort zone of glorious poverty & mounting a direct attack on our freedom of staying poor. We may be small farmers or land less labourers, small shopkeepers or unknown artisans; all of us, and our forefathers had the pride of having lived our lives in splendid penury. We

Did Kejriwal's national ambition kill Gajendra?

This is an attempt to answer the questions asked by @bwoyblunder in the piece 7 Questions AAP must answer, irrespective of Ashutosh’s tears. Any question once asked should not be allowed to remain unanswered. The unanswered questions don’t die or fade away or wither with the passage of time, they hang in the atmosphere, like collective, unfelt shame of the society, forever or till they are answered. Since AAP leaders would not answer these questions, I am taking the responsibility. I may not have the benefit of knowledge that witness or a perpetrator or a conspirator has but this is an attempt to use the information available in public domain, some deductive reasoning and use of a bit of plausibility. Q1: From where did AAP get Gajendra’s “suicide note ’ ? A:  The short answer is, “It was with the AAP volunteer who was supposed to hand over the note to Gajendra when he came down the tree.” but it would be incomplete answer. Gajendra was supposed to come down the tre