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Wild dreams of the dragon and the tiger rediscovering its roar
September 20, 2011, 12:31 PM IST
How the domestic political scene clouds a significant foreign policy move abroad can be exemplified by an almost unreported Vietnam initiative by India. But for the Chinese opposition to the entry of ONGC Videsh Limited…
September 20, 2011, 12:31 PM IST
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Then why not pre-1947 India?
September 7, 2011, 9:37 AM IST
Should we be thankful to god for giving us our daily dose of difficult times and challenges so that we may know who is a friend and who is not and test our inner core…
September 7, 2011, 9:37 AM IST
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Get soaked in the rains, the rainbow has turned tricoloured
August 25, 2011, 3:34 PM IST
It’s no time to remain inside and get entangled in the mumbo jumbo of political technicalities. Come out and feel the pulse of the nation. The rain of change is flooding the masses and it…
August 25, 2011, 3:34 PM IST
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Synthetic Gandhi can’t face Sabarmati Gandhi
August 16, 2011, 11:09 AM IST
A clueless UPA has done what every autocrat does in times of defeat. Crush, show the state power, and stifle the people’s voice and then look around with a stiff neck — hey, any one…
August 16, 2011, 11:09 AM IST
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The small Indian will win the war
August 14, 2011, 8:11 PM IST
In spite of the stink of badmouthing in the public domain and all the wrongdoers around assaulting an octogenarian fighting against the corrupt, India is not a land of the hopeless. Everywhere I go, I…
August 14, 2011, 8:11 PM IST
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Proud parents of a soldier
July 24, 2011, 7:56 PM IST
July 26 is the day when we observe the Kargil Vijay Divas and pay homage to the 527 martyrs who laid down their lives for the motherland in the 1999 Kargil war. I propose this…
July 24, 2011, 7:56 PM IST
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What do you say when dying in a bomb blast?
July 14, 2011, 4:20 PM IST
When the blast suddenly ripped me apart, it was not the sight of my son, my daughter or my mother that came before my eyes, closing silently for ever, but the resolve to take on…
July 14, 2011, 4:20 PM IST
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After Osama, target Islamabad
May 2, 2011, 3:34 PM IST
The United States of America has once again shown that it cares for certain values and has the guts not only to ensure safety and a dignified and terror-free life for its people but also…
May 2, 2011, 3:34 PM IST
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Seditious interlocution
April 23, 2011, 11:29 PM IST
The interlocutors’ recommending more autonomy to Kashmir and the revival of terms like Wazir-e-Azam and Sadr-e-Riyasat is nothing short of being seditious as it encourages pro-Pakistan traitors and demoralizes the patriotic Muslims and Hindus of…
April 23, 2011, 11:29 PM IST
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Power shift. BRICS and a Chinese train to Germany
April 16, 2011, 7:50 PM IST
Dr Manmohan Singh has undertaken one of his most significant strategic journeys — to Sanya in the Chinese province of Hainan. The BRICS summit provided not only a much needed breather from the domestic politics…
April 16, 2011, 7:50 PM IST
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Tell us which side you are on
April 8, 2011, 1:24 PM IST
A government which took no time to send interlocutors to talk to anti-national terrorists in their holes in Kashmir without any strings or conditions attached wanted the anti-corruption patriotic people to come to its doors…
April 8, 2011, 1:24 PM IST
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Leaderless at Wankhede and the pregnant silence of people
April 2, 2011, 1:50 PM IST
The ugly, arrogant and corrupt Indian politician as a perfect replica of and the Hindu hypocrisy of worshipping the Devi in stone but murdering her in the womb should have taken precedence over the crazy…
April 2, 2011, 1:50 PM IST
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The night that united us all
March 31, 2011, 4:02 PM IST
Never a cricket buff, but I dashed to Delhi cancelling a stay in Hong Kong, with my other MP friends and watched in my room the Mohali match. The roads in Delhi wore a silence…
March 31, 2011, 4:02 PM IST
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Men of straw
March 22, 2011, 5:31 AM IST
Face it squarely. All should have welcomed handing over the cases related to any kind of terror to NIA. Who cares? Anyone belonging to any colour, if found violating the Constitution should be brought to…
March 22, 2011, 5:31 AM IST
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Our ‘King’s Speech’
March 8, 2011, 3:37 AM IST
If you haven’t seen “King’s Speech”, the movie that won four Oscars, please do so, whenver you can get a chance. It’s a great story of a head of state who would go to any…
March 8, 2011, 3:37 AM IST
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Walking on thin ice
February 2, 2011, 4:51 AM IST
Even if Muslim Brotherhood’s upsurge in Cairo is an Islamist war cry and Hosni Mubarak remains Egypt’s last hope as a liberal, secular Muslim ruler, the message is welcome — the old must give way…
February 2, 2011, 4:51 AM IST
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Let’s change India
December 31, 2010, 11:25 AM IST
Certainly this was the year of the ugly politician and a failed media. Here is a true story: The lady was desperately searching for someone who would be ready to swap his berth when I…
December 31, 2010, 11:25 AM IST
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The man who turns foes into friends
December 25, 2010, 3:46 PM IST
In times of hate and distrust flowing free in the Indian skies, Atal Bihari Vajpayee emerges as an icon of faith and harmony. He enters his 87th year today. Years of struggle, poetry, an all-encompassing…
December 25, 2010, 3:46 PM IST
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Wen knows the address
December 10, 2010, 7:04 PM IST
He smiled in the winter of Sichuan coolly and said: “So Mr Tarun Vijay, you say your democracy is better than what you call our autocracy?” I said, with a tinge of pride: “Yes, Mr Zhao.” “But how?” he asked.
December 10, 2010, 7:04 PM IST
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Hey, what’s happening to India?
November 24, 2010, 4:23 PM IST
Ran the line in the Open magazine exposing the wheeling-dealing between the corporate world and the most pious secular sirens of the noble industry — the fourth estate.
November 24, 2010, 4:23 PM IST
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