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Provincialising Congress

Wednesday 25 March '09

Congress might die a thousand seat-sharing cuts
The connection between TV and Varun's hate speech

Tuesday 24 March '09

Coomi Kapoor | Blog Bytes Showing the speech once or twice is understandable, but telecasting it more than 20 times a day is not.
Her new estate

Sunday 22 March '09

At her dinner for Third Front leaders, Mayawati took her guests on a tour of her estate at Delhi’s Gurdwara Rakab Ganj road....
Wooing the young

Monday 16 March '09

Coomi Kapoor | Blog Bytes Until now, political parties generally ignored the young and first-time voter. In the upcoming Parliamentary elections, the focus is on garnering the youth vote.
Sending the wrong message

Sunday 15 March '09

When Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik learnt that BJP leader L.K. Advani had sent newspaper editor and nominated Rajya Sabha MP Chandan Mitra....
The Third Front problem

Wednesday 11 March '09

Why they’re unstable — perhaps more now than ever
Pop go the comrades

Sunday 8 March '09

Our Marxists have never hidden their contempt for pop culture and American commercial cinema and TV. But when the CPI(M) discovered that two of its own were getting awards from such reviled bourgeois institutions
A guide on probable, possible, and not impossible Prime Ministerial candidates

Thursday 5 March '09

Coomi Kapoor | Blog Bytes 2009 could be a reprise of 1996, the year when a dark horse emerged as Prime Minister. With neither the UPA nor the NDA expected to manage a majority on their own, the balance of power will rest with Third Front.
Remote control

Sunday 1 March '09

For over a month now, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi has been in hospital because of a severe ‘spinal disc degeneration’.
They, the people

Thursday 26 February '09

As the 14th Lok Sabha draws to a close, think of the House that could have been
A sari debate

Tuesday 24 February '09

Coomi Kapoor | Blog Bytes If an individual has the freedom to dress as he or she pleases, surely the host has the right to pick and chose whom he wants to permit within his premises?
No (Modi)fication in cases

Sunday 22 February '09

Former BCCI chairperson and NCP President Sharad Pawar spoke to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on behalf of IPL chairperson Lalit Modi.
At a reunion: Rewind and relook

Tuesday 17 February '09

Coomi Kapoor | Blog Bytes A re-union in Lonavala last week with school friends, some of whom I had not met for 45 years, brought back memories of my school days.
Arjun’s saffron side

Sunday 15 February '09

HRD Minister Arjun Singh may be the sharpest critic in the Cabinet of anyone espousing a remotely Hindutva line...
'Where do you live?'

Monday 9 February '09

Coomi Kapoor | Blog Bytes "Where do you live?" is a common query after an introduction. Sometimes it is a simply a way of figuring out a person's social standing. Stereotypes spring to mind depending on your address.
Wardrobe query

Sunday 8 February '09

External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee was taken aback when a woman from Chandigarh in a slinky black dress...
Yes, prime ministers

Saturday 7 February '09

Have we ever before had so many aspirants for the top job?
Focus off Mahatma

Tuesday 3 February '09

Coomi Kapoor | BLOG BYTES Who is the better known Gandhi today? The Father of the Nation or descendants of the Congress first family whose members have ruled India for most of the last half century?
Shrewd distribution

Sunday 1 February '09

The distribution of the Prime Minister’s duties during his absence has been such that it ensured nobody feels overly self-important....
Do we need annual Republic Day parade?

Tuesday 27 January '09

Coomi Kapoor | BLOG BYTESIn this day and age, do we need an annual Republic Day parade to flex our military muscles?
Amethi-centric vision

Sunday 25 January '09

British journalists who accompanied Rahul Gandhi and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to Amethi were taken aback at the Gandhi scion...
Media's Chosen Victims

Thursday 22 January '09

Coomi Kapoor | BLOG BYTESTV personality Karan Thapar, known for his hard-hitting interviews, did a role-reversal at the end of the year. He asked one of the guests on his show, Arun Jaitley, to interview him.
When they are young again

Wednesday 21 January '09

Political parties should keep in mind the average age of the electorate
Showcasing Modi

Sunday 18 January '09

The list of foreign dignitaries who attended Narendra Modi’s Vibrant Gujarat function was as impressive as the turnout of Indian industry.
Not a sisterly act

Sunday 11 January '09

Mayawati has ditched the three Samajwadi Party MPs—Atiq Ahmed, Afzal Ansari and Raj Narain Bhadulia—who defied their party whip to vote along with the BSP
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