Coomi Kapoor
The Indian Express Group
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.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...Sunday
23 August '09It was RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s candid interview with Arnab Goswami which triggered Jaswant Singh’s expulsion....Friday
21 August '09The crude manner in which Jaswant Singh was expelled reflects the tightening grip of the RSS over the BJP.Sunday
16 August '09Several Ministers of State are annoyed over the rows allotted to them in the Lok Sabha by Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Pawan Bansal.Friday
14 August '09We Indians tend to panic easily. Another national trait is scare mongering.Sunday
9 August '09More skeletons are tumbling out of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes, following the arrest of Buta Singh’s son. A long-standing feud between Singh...Friday
7 August '09Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan Singh appear to make a perfect team.Sunday
2 August '09If Shiv Shankar Menon has been made the fall guy for the Indo-Pakistan joint statement in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Shyam Saran, the PM’s envoy on climate change...Wednesday
29 July '09Reporting on human rights violations is an important part of journalism, but sometimes there is a lack of discrimination in the causes that we champion.Wednesday
29 July '09The ongoing controversy over eminent African-American Harvard scholar, Henry Louis Gates’ arrest should be an example to us.Sunday
26 July '09Trust the Samajwadi Party’s ubiquitous general secretary Amar Singh not to disappear from sight even when he is in Singapore for a kidney transplant....Wednesday
22 July '09In Egypt, the Foreign Secretary was not willing to concede that there was a mistake of any sort in the joint statement.Sunday
19 July '09Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad’s lighthearted remark on World Population Day that TV was the best birth control device....Wednesday
15 July '09It was noticeable that almost all the fuming over the supposed slight to the sari emanated from men, not from women. Which reflects the chauvinistic double standards of the Indian male.Sunday
12 July '09The heavy artillery has been brought out in the CPI(M)’s war of attrition. Last week at the party’s politburo meeting...Friday
10 July '09When the government finally discloses the contents of the Justice Liberhan Commission report there will predictably be a hue-and-cry in the media and heated debates in Parliament and outside.Wednesday
8 July '09Long after the Japanese gave up their kimonos, the Chinese their Mao boiler suits and the South Americans their boleros, we Indian woman, whether at home or abroad, clung loyally to our saris.Sunday
5 July '09Pranab Mukherjee is not Mamata Banerjee’s favourite Congress leader as she suspects he is soft on the CPI(M). But....Tuesday
30 June '09When it comes to introspecting on our own behaviour towards foreigners, we tend to turn a blind eye.Sunday
28 June '09Mamata Bannerjee is not the only union minister who views Delhi as a stop over and not her main destination.Monday
22 June '09The phrase 'victory has many fathers, in defeat you are an orphan' is particularly appropriate for Indian politics.Monday
22 June '09The BJP likes to claim: country first, party next and the individual last. But the messy, very public...Sunday
21 June '09Is the Congress Party advisory to its members not to use their feudal titles meant as a gentle hint to royals who were....Sunday
14 June '09L K Advani’s aide Sudheendra Kulkarni’s article hitting out at the RSS and suggesting the BJP tone down its Hindutva stance....
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