How not to be the next Gauri

September 12, 2017 10:27

Less than 72 hours before Narendra Modi spread Swami Vivekananda's message of love and brotherhood among students, an admirer of the Prime Minister had given a survival tip to progressive writers.

"What I can tell the progressive writers here (in Kerala) is that, children, please do the mruthyanjaya homam as we never know what's going to happen next. So remember, please go to the nearest Siva temple or you may become the next Gauri," a frail, middle-aged woman is purportedly heard saying on a video clip.

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