Two Hundred Million Dalits
Are not India
Two Hundred Million Muslims
Are not India
One Hundred Million Adivasis
Are not India
One Hundred Twenty Million Farmers
Are not India
Secularists
Are not India
Atheists
Are not India
Socialists
Are not India
Communists
Are not India
Liberals
Are not India
Journalists
Are not India
Academics
Are not India
Scientists
Are not India
What is India?
Adani is India
Modi is India
Daag Ujjala is a poet
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