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Bizarre. Overloaded. Technicolor. Chaotic. Golmaal. Jugaad. Chalta hai
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ou’d run out of words long before you'd run out of an India that all those words describe. And in not just one language, but many. Including SMS. India is not a contradiction in terms. It sets the terms for all contradiction. It’s the world’s biggest and most energetic democracy, where people chuck out governments as frequently as they chuck out their garbage. It’s a byword for immense wealth and terrible poverty, a realm of billionaires and beggars, the Maha Kumbh mela and mega malls, tantrics and Twitter. Have you ever seen a large ‘Commit No Nuisance’ sign and a line of men standing under it and peeing? A state-of-
the-art expressway with cows roaming across it? A train with more people sitting on the roofs of the coaches than passengers inside? A booze shop advertising ‘Chilled Bear Served Hear’? As we celebrate the 61st year of our raucous and irrepressible Republic, we invite you to share the sights and the sounds, the scenes and the surprises, that you feel make India, India. Join us in what we hope will be the biggest exercise ever in collective story-telling: A Day in the Life of India. Hosted on www.day.in. Turn the page to find out more.
Jai Ho! And Ho Jaye