A bridge to burn

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Finally, someone has blown the whistle on the obscurantism and low idiocy that plagued us throughout the 'shining' reign of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Speaking for the UPA-led Government of India, the Archaeological Survey of India has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court rejecting the claim that there exists a Ram Sethu in the Gulf of Mannar. Predictably, the BJP and its mythology-drunk cohorts have started to act out their charade of Hindutva-charged nationalism that befools both history and common sense. Be warned, a heady saffron pralay is about to flow our way. It started on Wednesday morning on my way to work even before news of the affidavit was out. My bus was held up on Hosur Road (already notorious for its cranky moods) for two hours in log-jam traffic. Protesters with saffron flags and headbands stopped traffic at a critical intersection, as they did....