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I was sitting in a clinic to report a little cough to the doctor and I realized I had to wait. 'Okay with me,' I thought. I am a writer and all those stories I knit come from observing people around me, every chance I get. So I had my eyes keenly looking at a doting mother, more scared than her kid with the prognosis, the clinic attendants, the busy yet bored receptionist - well, the list is long.
He has arrived as a mild storm in Karnataka. Not totally unexpected though! This Siddaramaiah, the new Chief Minister of Karnataka, is definitely a welcome change in a state that was caught in a whirlpool of corruption and totally bad governance for quite a long time. His party, his caste, etc., fade in the background in the face of the ideological legacy that he is associated with.
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