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Mainstreaming Muslims: This community lags behind in social indicators and needs reservations
April 10, 2015, 12:03 AM IST
Reservation has always been an important issue in Indian politics. Often it is also seen as a tool for vote bank politics. Any talk of extending the benefit of reservation to minorities, especially Muslims, gets…
April 10, 2015, 12:03 AM IST
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Export pessimism again: Trade policy of Modi government falls short on ambition and ideas
April 9, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
The Foreign Trade Policy (FTP) of the NDA government, announced by trade minister Nirmala Sitharaman earlier this month, is in two parts. It includes an FTP statement itself 66 pages long, accompanied by the actual…
April 9, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Don’t play fairy godmother: Trinamool doesn’t want government meddling in land deals between industry and farmer
April 7, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
There’s a delightful phrase of Persian origin called ‘noora kushti’. It denotes a fixed fight — two people pretending to wrestle and fool spectators. The so-called tussle between the BJP-led government and Congress over the…
April 7, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Garissa University massacre: Al Shabaab on a revengeful warpath
April 7, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
The massacre of 142 students in eastern Kenya’s Garissa University College by Al Shabaab terrorists is a crime against humanity on par with Taliban terrorists mowing down 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, Pakistan, and the killing…
April 7, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Got nothing to lose
April 7, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
Couldn’t care less if the market does a Michael Jackson moon dance Since i have spent most of my life trying to get my two ends to speak to each other i have not invested…
April 7, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Falling off our map: By neglecting the economic paradigm Pakistan has become irrelevant to India
April 6, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
Everybody likes attention, and when suddenly deprived of it is upset, befuddled and quick to blame others. This is a common human predicament. In a sense, it is an apt description for Pakistan’s understanding of…
April 6, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Nuclear breakthrough: Iran and the West now have the best opportunity in decades to move towards a lasting settlement
April 4, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
In a dramatic breakthrough, Iran and the P5+1 (the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Russia, France, Germany) reached on Thursday a framework political deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear programme while gradually easing international sanctions….
April 4, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Rahul versus Sonia: Every day he stays away, Congress grows more divided over who should lead it into the future
April 3, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
Rahul Gandhi’s unexpected ‘leave of absence’ kicked off a ‘Rahul versus Sonia’ discussion inside, and outside, Congress — on who should lead the party at this juncture. His long absence without anyone in the party…
April 3, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Fashionable puffs: Smoking is rising among women because cigarettes are being marketed as signs of success
April 2, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
Government of India is now debating whether to increase the dimensions of the frightening pictures on cigarette packets. Limiting our attention to enlarging them and thereby their potential to scare may not be enough. Experience…
April 2, 2015, 12:06 AM IST
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Weapons of mass instruction: Cheat sheets beyond Spiderman wannabes of Bihar
March 31, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
The arresting visuals of ‘friends and family’ clambering walls to feed cheat sheets to students answering the board exams in Bihar grabbed eyeballs from Chandigarh to Calgary. Watching these guardians take a small step up…
March 31, 2015, 12:08 AM IST
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Same same but different: Parliaments of India, China and Japan are all pushing reforms but guess who’s ahead?
March 30, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
The buzzword across three principal Asian countries – India, China and Japan – is ‘reform’. It’s clear that their impulses are interlinked and have consequences for the world. Coincidentally, all three have been having key…
March 30, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Dictators would love 66A: Law in a civilised society curbs the state, and not the individual
March 28, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
In order to appreciate why the Supreme Court saw it fit to strike down Section 66A, it is important to get a hang of the reasoning that went behind it. This may come as a…
March 28, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Neat and nimble
March 28, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
All that we should learn from Lee’s Singapore Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, is dead, the last of Asia’s towering postcolonial leaders to pass on. Lee has his critics, but even they acknowledge…
March 28, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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We will win again: Disappointing as the World Cup exit is, there are positive takeaways in bowling and fielding
March 27, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
The Indian cricket team had an almost incomparable run in this Cricket World Cup till the semi-final. Belying all doubts about form and composition, seven matches were won on the trot with exemplary batting, bowling…
March 27, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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Promising the Moon: From India to Australia, populism is causing a crisis in democratic governance
March 26, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
Faced with electoral volatility and voter anger, is politics becoming the art of the impossible where tough decisions required for long-term economic health cannot be implemented because of the short-term pain they inflict? Some hold…
March 26, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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How I defeated TB: Tuberculosis today is completely curable but timely diagnosis is key
March 24, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
Good health is the most important requirement for leading a fulfilling life. It is a prerequisite to attaining one’s full potential, which translates into social and economic benefits for the entire community. India is a…
March 24, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Gandhi statue in London: Half-naked fakir keeping company with the British bulldog
March 24, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
An impressive nine feet statue of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled in London’s Parliament Square this month. PM David Cameron paid tribute to Gandhi: “By putting Mahatma Gandhi in this famous square we are giving him…
March 24, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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Wedding hijacked
March 24, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
Cupid wanders away when VIPs wade in with Black Cats If you are having a wedding in the family and you are inviting VIPs or celebrities please don’t call me. There is nothing more disconcerting…
March 24, 2015, 12:00 AM IST
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The IAS Russian roulette routine: Babus are much demonised, but D K Ravi shows up other side of the coin
March 23, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
The next time you meet an IAS officer, instead of going with the typecast view of him being lazy, incompetent, a file-pusher who’s rotten and corrupt, pause for a moment and step back. Try to…
March 23, 2015, 12:04 AM IST
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Psychology’s distorting mirror drives Hindutva’s hatred of Christians
March 21, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
Many are puzzled by the spate of attacks on Christians since the BJP-dominated NDA-II came to power. Especially why it has not abated — the gang rape of a septuagenarian nun being the latest horror…
March 21, 2015, 12:02 AM IST
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