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Shiv Visvanathan ANTONIN ARTAUD could not have done better. The timing was so immaculate and surreal.
Celebrating the 50th year of our independence, Atal Behari Vajpayee erased in one .stroke the legacy of the national movement and its modernist aftermath: Ranch Shila. non-alignment, non-violence and the dream of a world of alternatives. It was a killing of the fathers that Freud would have been intrigued about.