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Why vote? It is not unusual to find this sentiment being expressed. When we use the expression ‘not unusual’, there is no exaggeration because even...

Only he decided to call time, last year from ODIs and now from Test cricket. He is going out at a time and place of his choosing, not at the prompting...

Kabul no longer resembles a city ravaged by three decades of war, civil strife and insurgency. A few minutes after leaving the airport complex as one...

One of history’s greatest faults is its asymmetry of acclaim, catapulting some figures into legend status while leaving many worthy others behind as...

The goonda raj, unleashed in Delhi from 1975, pulled the rug from under the principled politics of the previous three decades. Even the followers of...

Just 285 km from Kargil, Kupwara was in news over the last two weeks amid a host of other headline-worthy items – Lalu Prasad’s conviction, the battle...

Shweta Mathur has 700 ‘friends’ on a popular social networking site. Yet, when she sat in a psychologist’s office after her parents’ suspected...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is visiting Russia and having summit with President Putin on 21 October. Less than a month after his bilateral talks...

The political class has failed Andhra Pradesh as is seen in the present political crisis. Just for the sake of vote bank politics, almost all the...

We were standing in the only street of this small village called Mohda. Located in the forested region of Chhattisgarh, the village had no access to...

Since Manmohan Singh’s reputation has been taking a beating from the time of the spectrum to the Commonwealth Games scams and finally to Coalgate, the...

Tonnes of newsprint and gallons of ink have been used to write requiem for one of the most colourful characters of Indian politics - Lalu Prasad...