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Preserving Raj relics

Sunday 8 November '09

Cabinet Secretary K M Chandrasekhar has cautioned ministries located in the North and South Block secretariat to preserve the heritage structures....
Imagining Indira

Wednesday 4 November '09

If the birth anniversary of India's original iron man, which fell on the same day, was ignored, that also is unremarkable.
Unofficial adviser

Sunday 1 November '09

Former foreign secretary Shiv Shankar Menon, a seasoned China hand, has been acting as unofficial adviser to the Government on Sino-Indian relations.
Stop the obsession with Pakistan!

Monday 26 October '09

Out of the mouth of a babalog politician recently came words that warmed my heart. "We are giving too much importance to Pakistan.
Mum’s the word

Sunday 25 October '09

BJP President Rajnath Singh was incensed by commentator Suhel Seth’s sharp attack on “joker feudals” who believe they are a law unto themselves....
Winner takes all

Friday 23 October '09

The Shiv Sena, BJP and NCP must rethink their politics...
Guarding their positions

Sunday 11 October '09

Defence Minister A K Antony was to preside over the opening of the coast guard command office at Gandhinagar on October 3.
Poverty of research in India

Friday 9 October '09

Of the four Indians to win the Nobel Prize in science, only one, C V Raman, was awarded for research work done in his own country.
Peeling the onion

Tuesday 6 October '09

Mumbai has not, thankfully, totally swallowed Bombay
No monopoly friendship

Sunday 4 October '09

DMK, which has a near-monopoly on TV channels in Tamil Nadu, is known to put pressure on the Centre not to issue licences to others....
How Quattrocchi walked free

Thursday 1 October '09

The manner in which investigations and prosecutions in the Bofors case were spectacularly bungled is proof enough that whoever took the Bofors money is supremely powerful.
A hack’s job

Sunday 27 September '09

Pakistani ambassador Shahid Malik has encountered the same problem that Mani Shankar Aiyar recently faced....
The Congress's five-star hypocrisy

Thursday 24 September '09

One man's cattle class is another man's idea of supreme luxury. Which is why the Congress austerity drive has a hollow ring.
Fatal diversion

Sunday 20 September '09

Minutes before the helicopter carrying Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy crashed, he phoned his wife to...
In the name of the father

Saturday 12 September '09

Should Y S Jaganmohan Reddy be permitted to step into his father YS Rajasekhar Reddy's shoes?
Practise what you preach

Sunday 13 September '09

Many of his cabinet colleagues are furious with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee for publicly admonishing S M Krishna and Shashi Tharoor....
Counting their chickens

Sunday 6 September '09

After the NCP’s poor performance in the parliamentary poll, the Congress wants to squeeze its ally in the Assembly poll for Maharashtra....
EVMs: The question of manipulation

Friday 4 September '09

Why should the Indian electorate trust its valuable vote to an EVM which provides no audit trail and no receipt?
Surviving Ram and Laxman

Wednesday 2 September '09

The BJP prides itself that, unlike most political parties, it is democratic and not controlled by a single family. But this very...
Promote plumpy nut

Sunday 30 August '09

IT IS a sad reflection on the mentality of the Indian bureaucracy that it believes that paperwork are of a greater concern than a child's life.
Only three-fourths of a quota

Sunday 30 August '09

Media reports blamed former HRD minister Arjun Singh for using up the entire ministerial discretionary quota for seats in Central government schools before he demitted office...
Keeping RSS in mind

Sunday 23 August '09

It was RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s candid interview with Arnab Goswami which triggered Jaswant Singh’s expulsion....
Stuck in a time warp, RSS is pulling BJP backwards

Friday 21 August '09

The crude manner in which Jaswant Singh was expelled reflects the tightening grip of the RSS over the BJP.
Pique over pecking order

Sunday 16 August '09

Several Ministers of State are annoyed over the rows allotted to them in the Lok Sabha by Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Pawan Bansal.
It's panic flu in India

Friday 14 August '09

We Indians tend to panic easily. Another national trait is scare mongering.
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