“Words, words, words” was Hamlet’s reply to Polonius’ question, “What do you read, my lord?” That is what our Right to Information Act, 2005, is being reduced to. Earlier this month, civil society organisations organised a public hearing in Patna where families of the ‘whistle blowers’ disclosed that the whistle blowers had been working on issues of public importance and …
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Hamlet is a self-centred, entitled, manipulative, callous bully. Polonius may be an “intruding fool,” as Hamlet dismissively calls him on discovering his body; but Hamlet is in no position to feel superior, having “intruded” on Claudius’s private meditations in just the previous scene. To make his treatment of Polonius worse, once dead, Hamlet drags his corpse through the court, hiding …
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