The death of renowned adman Piyush Pandey revived memories of his ‘Mile Sur Mera Tumhara’ song for the Indian masses. The punchline of his famous Fevicol ad, “stick together”, also resonates with The Tribune Editor-in-Chief Jyoti Malhotra, who has drawn the perfect analogy in her weekly column The Great Game ‘ Mile sur mera tumhara ? Not really’ . India is 78 years old and it has more or less stuck together — sometimes more, sometimes less, she writes. One example of the former is the BJP’s determination to streamline the passage of trains carrying Bihari migrant labour from Punjab back home to celebrate the Chhath Puja festival. An example of the latter is the expulsion of Hindi-Urdu scholar Francesca Orsini after living for 40 years in India on a weak alibi of violating visa condi

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