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Saturday 23 August '08

It was only on Thursday that the Supreme Court allowed the most recent entrant into Andhra politics to unveil his party in Tirupati.
Character Assassination

Sunday 3 August '08

A murder mystery resonating with news of new India
The spectre of bomb blasts

Friday 1 August '08

The reaction of the Urdu newspapers to the recent bomb blasts in Bangalore and Ahmedabad has been more of...
Politics of a Deal

Friday 18 July '08

Matters surrounding the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal continue to dominate the pages of Urdu newspapers as, indeed...
Whose moment is this?

Wednesday 16 July '08

The contours of the immediate crisis (or hectic political parleying) should become clear whenever the “trust vote”...
Caste panel to Govt: Don’t use the word Dalit, use SC

Sunday 13 July '08

The Centrally appointed National Commission for Scheduled Castes has issued a circular disallowing the use of the word “Dalit...
Nuclear fallout

Friday 4 July '08

Noted Urdu writer and journalist, Hasan Kamal, in his column ‘Kehta Hoon Such’ (Rashtriya Sahara, June 28) writes...
Call from Mecca

Friday 20 June '08

The three-day Islamic inter-faith international conference organised by the highly esteemed Rabita Alam-e-Islami...
No heart in heartland

Tuesday 10 June '08

The meeting between Mayawati and Mulayam Singh, on the innocuous question of constituting the state Human Rights Commission...
Why BJP won

Friday 6 June '08

Rashtriya Sahara, in an editorial, ‘Alarm bells for the Congress’ (May 26) writes that the people of Karnataka have taught a lesson...
In defence of politics

Monday 2 June '08

The cliche, “politics is the art of the possible”, has come to symbolise all kinds of wheeling-dealing, money and muscle...
He who holds Bangalore

Monday 26 May '08

Karnataka has been an interesting “link” state, so to speak, between the politics of the “North” and the “South”, over the past 15 years.
Truth about blasts

Friday 23 May '08

Delhi-based Hindustan Express, in an editorial on May 16, says that whenever hope is generated for resumption...
Rabid e-mail takes on liberal Muslim scholars

Friday 23 May '08

Takes blames for Jaipur blasts, attacks those behind Deoband anti-terror resolution as ‘Scholars of Satan’.
What went wrong in Kashmir

Tuesday 20 May '08

In 1970, three followers of Vinoba Bhave on a peace mission to Kashmir were kept away from the people of the Valley...
Iran calling

Friday 9 May '08

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Indian visit and the gas pipeline have prompted comment in almost...
Radical proposals in new education bill

Tuesday 29 April '08

Tucked away in the Right to Education draft bill—framed by the HRD Ministry, which is presently in consultation with the Law Ministry...
How not to fund a legislator

Saturday 26 April '08

During a debate in Lok Sabha this week, as the MP local area development scheme was referred to in passing...
Raag Darbari

Friday 25 April '08

Using Ghalib’s line as the title for its editorial on HRD minister Arjun Singh - it draws on something the poet is said to have....
On rural development, MPs’ hearts may be full but during debate, Lok Sabha is empty

Thursday 24 April '08

The Government plugs Bharat Nirman as the Nayi Azadi in TV spots during IPL matches...
Testing RTI: Govt vs activists, Pricewaterhouse vs Google

Tuesday 22 April '08

Govt asks PwC to study efficacy of RTI, wary activists launch own study backed by grant from Google Foundation
A visit from a daughter

Friday 18 April '08

In one private and quiet act of meeting with a person (who was part of her father’s assassination plot) on a jail bench...
Rising price, falling popularity

Friday 11 April '08

Kolkata and Delhi-based Akhbar-e-Mashriq in its editorial on March 31 wrote that the price rise might prove...
Off-screen, the political act

Thursday 10 April '08

Why don’t film actors in the North take up political causes? Is it Hindi cinema?
Equal Opportunities Commission should benefit all communities: panel

Saturday 5 April '08

An expert panel set up last year to look into the structure and functions of an “Equal Opportunities Commission”...
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