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Odds getting even on pollution
17 Dec 2015 3:00 AM ISTCome the New Year and the residents of the national capital would be faced with the onerous task of choosing between private transport and public...
Migration and social inclusion
10 Dec 2015 2:36 AM ISTThe politically illiterate middle-class of the national capital region has blamed the role of caste for the “catastrophe in Bihar.” They feel that by...
Reconciliation or tactical retreat
3 Dec 2015 3:04 AM ISTIt’s difficult to believe that Prime Minister Narendra Modi could actually speak in an adulatory tone about the nation’s first premier Jawaharlal...
New politics, same old whine
26 Nov 2015 3:26 AM ISTIt’s seldom that western ideas get implemented in the Indian context in either spirit or text. For some time, Indian academics have been discussing...
Getting the ideas right
21 Nov 2015 3:40 AM ISTFor the proponents of a certain ideology, it’s not easy to mull over the idea that they lack the requisite scholarship to stand up to adverse...
Need to rise beyond divide
12 Nov 2015 3:29 AM ISTIn the lap of foothills of the Himalayas is a village called Purkal. About a thousand feet above Dehradun, this beautiful village virtually lies...
Modi decimated
9 Nov 2015 5:34 AM ISTThis is only the second time in the nation’s political history that a Prime Minister has been trumped by a Chief Minister. The other occasion being...
Walking into a bovine trap
5 Nov 2015 2:27 AM ISTWith five-phase voting for the Bihar assembly elections coming to a close, the whole controversy around beef should end. The hullabaloo started with...
Process of political Sanskritisation
29 Oct 2015 3:08 AM ISTThe entry of a tantric, a dog and a few pigeons and the shift in the focus of the ongoing assembly poll campaign in Bihar from development and caste...
Modi’s charisma versus Bihar BJP
22 Oct 2015 2:51 AM ISTTwo chief ministers from the Bharatiya Janata Party recently completed their first year in office – Manohar Lal Khattar in Haryana and Devendra...
JP as arbitrator in Bihar polls
15 Oct 2015 2:53 AM ISTJayaprakash Narayan (JP), the charismatic Socialist leader, led the most momentous democratic movement post-Independence. The movement first led to...
As Bihar gets ready to vote, Lalu regains campaign centrestage
12 Oct 2015 5:20 AM ISTBihar Assembly polls have never witnessed such spotlight since Independence. In fact not since 1987, when Rajiv Gandhi went campaigning in West Bengal...