Tag: communal incidents

By Amulya Ganguli, Rahul Gandhi has had another of his escape-velocity-of-Jupiter moments. His reference to the massive gravitational force of the solar system's largest planet was in the context of "explaining" how much velocity was required by a spacecraft to lift itself from the surface of Jupiter compared to what was required on earth -- 60 km/sec against 11 km/sec. According to him, this was the kind of stupendous "effort" which the Dalits needed to "escape" from their present lowly socio-economic conditions. Following that foray into space science, the Congress president has now...