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Attacking Rajdeep Sardesai an act of cowardice
September 29, 2014, 5:51 PM IST
Wherever Narendra Modi goes, the limelight follows. Sometimes, unfortunately, controversies manage to squirm their way in too. As India’s most loved politician, the new Prime Minister delivered a stellar speech in New York to thousands…
September 29, 2014, 5:51 PM IST
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An open letter to Shashi Tharoor
September 4, 2014, 7:02 AM IST
Dear Shashiji, I am writing to you as a young Indian who earnestly believes in the democratic ethos of India. This, despite the fact that India owes most of her problems today to the flawed…
September 4, 2014, 7:02 AM IST
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Vinod Rai’s damning disclosures – death knell for Congress?
August 25, 2014, 10:11 AM IST
When an upright and fearless bureaucrat like Vinod Rai talks, it is an infinitely better idea to sit up, listen and reflect, rather than attack and deflect. The former Comptroller Auditor General of India, Vinod…
August 25, 2014, 10:11 AM IST
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What is the Congress party’s biggest weakness?
August 18, 2014, 11:34 AM IST
As the dust settles, after what was a spectacularly riveting contest between a floundering and ineffectual Congress party and a masterfully managed BJP war-machine, analysts from both camps have submitted their diagnosis. The answers might…
August 18, 2014, 11:34 AM IST
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Young Indians take heed: Israel-Palestine war
July 29, 2014, 1:48 PM IST
As a long time supporter of Israel and its struggle to assert its own rightful place in the Middle East, the senseless bloodshed over the past few weeks in the Gaza strip has left me…
July 29, 2014, 1:48 PM IST
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Tinted diplomacy
July 14, 2014, 11:18 AM IST
Why are embassy-owned vehicles in New Delhi allowed to flout the orders of the Supreme Court? For a city as notoriously unsafe as Delhi, for its women residents, one might assume that the police authorities…
July 14, 2014, 11:18 AM IST
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Gopal Subramaniam: Frank, fearless and betrayed
June 25, 2014, 5:40 PM IST
In failing to confirm the appointment of Senior Advocate Gopal Subramaniam to the Supreme Court, the new government has seriously erred and it ought to reconsider its decision. Subramaniam has enjoyed an unblemished reputation over…
June 25, 2014, 5:40 PM IST
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25 innocent lives lost, but where is the outrage?
June 11, 2014, 6:27 PM IST
For a chief minister of a state to call the horrific drowning of 25 young students as ‘unfortunate’ is both disgusting and inexcusable. Instead of apologising for the grave and possibly criminal negligence on the…
June 11, 2014, 6:27 PM IST
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Let’s not lie about Article 370
May 31, 2014, 1:24 PM IST
The National Conference, the Indian National Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party have all expressed divergent views on this contentious and misunderstood provision of the Constitution. Who do we believe? The inevitable has happened, though…
May 31, 2014, 1:24 PM IST
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Will Narendra Modi learn from the Henderson Brooks report?
March 24, 2014, 12:11 PM IST
The Henderson Brooks report minces no words in its damning indictment of Nehru’s flawed ‘Forward Policy,’ which ultimately led to India’s defeat at the hands of the Chinese in 1962. Offering a glimpse into the…
March 24, 2014, 12:11 PM IST
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6 big ideas for new PM
March 14, 2014, 4:07 PM IST
Is this India’s last chance to recover from the wasted decade? Come May 2014, once the electoral dust settles into the foreground and the new claimants to power emerge – one thing will become painfully…
March 14, 2014, 4:07 PM IST
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AAP vs. Reliance Industries? Kejriwal stands exposed
February 17, 2014, 7:45 AM IST
The AAP’s latest attack on Reliance Industries does more than simply divert attention from their failure to govern; unfortunately for them, it also underscores the two main elements of their core ideology. On display is…
February 17, 2014, 7:45 AM IST
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Kejriwal’s politics of blackmail
February 10, 2014, 2:01 PM IST
Arvind Kejriwal’s latest stunt over the Jan Lokpal reaffirms his reputation as a serial blackmailer. The short history of his political outfit also stands testament to the fact that it thrives on coercing constitutional functionaries…
February 10, 2014, 2:01 PM IST
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Cylinder ki rajneeti
January 22, 2014, 6:01 PM IST
When the Congress Party suffered a humiliating defeat in Delhi last month, their vice president and campaign chief, Rahul Gandhi, held a presser announcing his intention to “learn from the AAP.” He was figuring out the…
January 22, 2014, 6:01 PM IST
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Kejriwal: The mouse that roared
January 16, 2014, 8:25 PM IST
Crass political opportunism has a new name – Arvind Kejriwal. The Aam Admi Party led by their maverick CM Arvind Kejriwal has squandered the goodwill of its electorate, and with it the momentum that it…
January 16, 2014, 8:25 PM IST
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The disastrous decade
January 6, 2014, 4:01 PM IST
The PM’s Press Conference was a disappointing blend of evasion and regret. Chronicling the misdeeds of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government over the past decade would require far more space than this blog will permit…
January 6, 2014, 4:01 PM IST
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The Kejriwal super-blunder
December 31, 2013, 9:49 AM IST
If ever the idiom ‘too clever by half’ were to apply to anyone, the Congress Party and its ‘master-strategists’ in New Delhi would be the prime candidates. No one in Delhi’s power circles wants to…
December 31, 2013, 9:49 AM IST
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Devyani Khobragade: India’s diplomatic nightmare
December 24, 2013, 11:53 AM IST
Devyani Khobragade’s arrest and the concomitant humiliation have put some uncomfortable realities about India into stark focus. The resultant diplomatic embarrassment that India has had to face, demands that we take a hard look at…
December 24, 2013, 11:53 AM IST
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Counterpoint: Why the SC’s 377 verdict is actually a boon for the gay community
December 13, 2013, 9:44 AM IST
Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that criminalises homosexual behaviour is an archaic and cruel remnant of our colonial past, which ought to have been struck off from the penal-code decades ago. There are…
December 13, 2013, 9:44 AM IST
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Don’t confuse compassion with weakness
November 22, 2013, 11:37 AM IST
The Supreme Court of India may speak softly, but this must not be confused with weakness or ‘fickleness’, as some observers have claimed, in the backdrop of the Campa Cola decision. In the larger public…
November 22, 2013, 11:37 AM IST
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