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Dipankar Gupta taught for nearly three decades in the School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Holi has always been a rowdy, rule-bending festival that freely receives anticipatory bail on popular demand. One is supposed to accept transgressions on this special day and if everybody were to behave, then a sanctioned and well-established opportunity to be bad has gone waste. Nor is all this rambunctiousness recent, as those born late, or raised in a boarding school, might think.
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