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What goes around comes around: a few lessons
August 25, 2016, 3:36 AM IST
History is fascinating. It always circles around. A lot of history is about culture and knowledge. It is also about the gaining and losing of power, the rise and fall of empires, and the cruelty…
August 25, 2016, 3:36 AM IST
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Simon says ‘sedition!’
August 25, 2016, 1:12 AM IST
By Keki N Daruwalla The executive has been sniping away at the judiciary for overreach. The courts think they are competent enough to set even our cricket administration right. But if we overlook a few…
August 25, 2016, 1:12 AM IST
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Mayawati’s social engineering formula keeps unravelling
August 23, 2016, 11:24 AM IST
The exodus of leaders continues unabated from Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as yet another senior leader, Brajesh Pathak, has jumped ship to BJP in the state of Uttar Pradesh (UP). Pathank’s exit may not electorally…
August 23, 2016, 11:24 AM IST
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The internally displaced
August 22, 2016, 4:36 PM IST
India has a long history with refugees since time immemorial – be it the Parsis fleeing persecution from the Middle East since the 7th century; the Tibetans finding sanctuary for their government in exile in…
August 22, 2016, 4:36 PM IST
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Why Narendra Modi is toeing the Manmohan Singh line on Urjit Patel
August 22, 2016, 3:14 PM IST
The appointment of Dr Urjit Patel as the next governor of Reserve Bank of India has been hailed not just by the business class but by political parties as well. Though most experts have written…
August 22, 2016, 3:14 PM IST
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Better system to check facts must for political class
August 22, 2016, 4:36 AM IST
By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee recalled the memory of Rajiv Gandhi on his 72nd birth anniversary by resurrecting a damaging statement of the late former premier. Minutes later, realising that the metaphor…
August 22, 2016, 4:36 AM IST
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Rampant compromise of principles in politics
August 19, 2016, 11:25 PM IST
The candid admission of “guilt” recently made by pseudo-socialist Mulayam Singh Yadav, the president of Samajwadi Party, that he “went slow in Bofors case” during his tenure as defence minister, tantamount to rampant compromises politicians…
August 19, 2016, 11:25 PM IST
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A study in contrasts = netas vs khiladis
August 19, 2016, 10:09 AM IST
A story each from the world of politics and sports this week is vividly illustrative of the gulf separating them. First the story of the electrification of Nagla Fatela, an Uttar Pradesh village. This Monday…
August 19, 2016, 10:09 AM IST
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5 instances which threaten to split the Samajwadi Party family in Uttar Pradesh
August 18, 2016, 6:00 PM IST
The power tussle within the ruling Samajwadi Party (SP) took a fresh turn with patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav rebuking the Akhilesh Yadav led state government for not doing enough to curb corruption earlier this week….
August 18, 2016, 6:00 PM IST
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Does Bihar really need total prohibition?
August 18, 2016, 10:35 AM IST
The death of 13 people after allegedly consuming illicit liquor in Gopalganj district of the “dry” state of Bihar has put the spotlight back on chief minister Nitish Kumar’s prohibition policy. Most of the dead…
August 18, 2016, 10:35 AM IST
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5 reasons why a Dalit could be Gujarat assembly’s new speaker
August 16, 2016, 2:58 PM IST
The shakeup in Gujarat government is complete with Vijay Rupani having dropped nine ministers from former chief minister Anandiben Patel’s council which included three cabinet and six junior ministers. But one crucial post is still…
August 16, 2016, 2:58 PM IST
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PM Narendra Modi forces Congress flip-flop on Balochistan
August 16, 2016, 11:07 AM IST
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third independence day speech on Monday was widely panned for being boring and unimaginative but he seems to have a hit a homerun at least on one point, the reference to…
August 16, 2016, 11:07 AM IST
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Runup to ’19: PM wishes to clear backlog!
August 16, 2016, 1:05 AM IST
Does Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech offer clues regarding the thrust of the plank on which he will approach people in 2019? What can one read into the fact that unlike the two…
August 16, 2016, 1:05 AM IST
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Narendra Modi’s outreach to Pakistan seem to have come a full circle
August 15, 2016, 12:07 PM IST
Under fire from Pakistan over the recent spurt of violence in Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi responded with a mention of how people of Balochistan, Gilgit and Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) have thanked him in…
August 15, 2016, 12:07 PM IST
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Dalit math at play behind PM’s hand-wringing
August 14, 2016, 12:02 AM IST
Last weekend, Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned self-styled cow ‘protectors’ as “anti-socials by night and cow saviours by day”. A day later Modi told them, “Shoot me, not Dalits.” The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), parent…
August 14, 2016, 12:02 AM IST
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Women demanded prohibition in Bihar, now they are being punished for it
August 13, 2016, 7:51 PM IST
Bihar’s draconian new prohibition laws introduce an altogether new principle into Indian jurisprudence – one can be punished for the crimes of another. Accordingly, this week in the Nalanda home district of Chief Minister Nitish…
August 13, 2016, 7:51 PM IST
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Enforce rule of law to end menace of cow vigilantes
August 12, 2016, 10:37 AM IST
Failure to give primacy to law is sign of a failing state and dangerous for India especially at a time when the flogging of Dalits in Gujarat’s Una has led to a new awakening for…
August 12, 2016, 10:37 AM IST
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How ‘mainland’ Indian politics has failed to to grapple with the Northeast
August 12, 2016, 5:58 AM IST
Thirty-two years ago, Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Gegong Apang gave an interview to TOI. This was in the context of a massacre in Gohpur and other areas in Assam where at least 300 Bodos were…
August 12, 2016, 5:58 AM IST
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A new Sansad Bhavan won’t be a repository of our history, freedom struggle
August 12, 2016, 5:34 AM IST
By Neerja Chowdhury When Sumitra Mahajan, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha, wrote to the central government last December mooting the idea of a new Parliament building, few lawmakers paid serious attention. After all, her…
August 12, 2016, 5:34 AM IST
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Road Safety Bill misses key facets
August 11, 2016, 5:07 AM IST
The move to amend the Motor Vehicles Act to improve road safety is most welcome. As signatory to the Brasilia Declaration and the Sustainable Development Goals, India has committed to halve the number of deaths…
August 11, 2016, 5:07 AM IST
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