A somewhat tenuous peace has been achieved in the ranks of the Bharatiya Janata Party after the “nasty jolt” it received in the May 2009 general elections. But a detente eludes journalists aligned with the BJP.
This, above, is the public exchange of words between the columnist Swapan Dasgupta and the Pioneer associate editor Kanchan Gupta on the microbloging site Twitter.
The provocation? Dasgupta’s piece in the Wall Street Journal on reinvigorating the BJP.
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How come no one saw the worm turn?
2 March 2010 at 12:26 am
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