Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Alexander McCall Smith and Philip Pullman at their best
In the garb of social responsibility, the Essar Group recently organised a storytelling festival for the ‘benefit’ of children in this Maoist-dense area. Apart from the organisers’ poorly disguised disdain for local artistes, what emerged most starkly was the stench of corporate propaganda
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