Jumping to conclusions

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I have never been more reluctant writing any opinion as I am now. I never glance over my shoulder to check if anyone is peeping into my laptop, just in case I am being read as I write, and being misunderstood. This time I am, almost hoping I had a rear-view mirror on my table which would allow me to check my discomfort. In the past 10 days, ever since gunshots disturbed the hum of Batla House in Delhi's Jamia Nagar that sedentary Friday morning, we've so intensified the practice sessions of a new sport we now play; there is a danger of us becoming world-beaters at it. It's a variation of long jump in athletics...it's called jumping to conclusions. We have done this to every piece of fact. So, when the rightist Hindutva brigade calls the Jamia University's decision to legally support two of their....