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Stephen Derwent Partington on Rotimi Babatunde’s “Bombay’s Republic”

I enjoyed the first two-thirds of this story, which recounts the experiences during the second world war of a character nicknamed ‘Bombay’. While it is frequently repeated throughout the story that this is the ‘forgotten frontier’ and that the army of colonial...
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Rotimi Babatunde’s Bombay’s Republic…Of Similitude And Verisimilitude

Jurisprudence and common sense agree on the question of burden of proof: he who asserts must prove. Then and only then does the evidentiary burden ever shift. In the field of writing, a presumption of law makes this burden of proof inexorable for the person asserting....