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India: of Men, Women, and Bombs  

Amrita Basu and Rekha Basu ▪


India: Of Men, Women, and Bombs  

Amrita Basu and Rekha Basu ▪ Winter 1999

India declared its manhood last spring by blasting five nuclear devices. “It had to be done,” said the outspoken Hindu nationalist leader Balasaheb Thackeray, “we had to prove that we are not eunuchs.” Picking up on the sexual subtext, a …



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