Daily Brief: How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot, and more

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  How Karnataka’s once-powerful Janata Dal Secular was reduced to a Hindutva offshoot 
  The HD Deve Gowda-led JD(S) faces an existential crisis. A poor performance could see it lose sway over the state’s significant Vokkaliga community... 
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  Can BJP use Ram as a campaign tool during the election? 
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  ‘They built the Ram temple. That is bigger than providing jobs.’ 
  This Mumbai security guard works 18 hours a day to earn what he did five years ago, but does not blame the Modi government for his difficult life. 
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  Will bring back electoral bonds after wider consultations, says Nirmala Sitharaman 
  The finance minister, in an interview with the Hindustan Times, echoed the prime minister’s claim that the now-scrapped scheme had brought in transparency. 
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  In Switzerland, the ‘no-blame’ approach brings bullies and bullied students together 
  Punishing the perpetrators tends to worsen the bullying for the victim. Encouraging an open discussion instead helps change the social dynamic. 
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  Salman Rushdie’s new memoir un-wounds the ‘knife’ of language 
  ‘Knife’ is an exceptional book written in exceptional circumstances by a writer who wanted to ‘answer violence with art’. 
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  Listen: Baramasa compositions that describe the imagery of the seasons 
  Thumris by Shobha Gurtu, Sipra Bose and Shubha Mudgal. 
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  ‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem 
  ‘Do Aur Do Pyaar’ review: Adultery saga has a maths problem 
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