As the State has been successfully bent by Sikh and Muslim communalists over the last decade, double-standards, I would say in some cases duplicity have been the hallmark of the media's treatment of events and issues.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "As the State has been successfully bent by Sikh and Muslim communalists over the last decade, double-standards, I would say in some cases duplicity have been the hallmark of the media's treatment of events and issues." in the context of "Arun Shourie, Indian controversies: Essays on religion in politics" to mean that wisdom is timeless.