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Angels still tread here
20 Nov 2014 3:33 AM ISTThe 18th Century English poet Alexander Pope till date remains one of the most quoted litterateurs. He started with ‘Essay on Criticism’ and went onto...
Not Cardus’ kind of book
13 Nov 2014 5:25 AM ISTWhile the newspapers’ entertainment pages compete on which star’s film clashed with release of which star, we missed on a possible story on the clash...
Sunday Shuffle: Cabinet 1.0 gains weight after expansion
10 Nov 2014 6:05 AM ISTThe taciturn look on the face of BJP veteran Lal Krishna Advani sitting in the front row a seat away from Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the...
With Parrikar for defence, prime minister reboots anti-corruption
8 Nov 2014 5:37 AM ISTDefence being the most big-ticket corruption-prone ministry, a man like Parrikar, who has had impeccable run as chief minister of Goa, at the helm...
So, to commemorate or not?
6 Nov 2014 3:21 AM ISTThe Bard of Avon best explained human dilemma in the opening phrase of a soliloquy in his play Hamlet, now made famous through its Bollywood...
Gandhis must chart a new path
30 Oct 2014 3:04 AM ISTEver since the party was voted out of power in May this year, the Congress headquarters are frequented by cheer leaders demanding anointment of...
Thankfully Buddha failed to smile
23 Oct 2014 3:41 AM ISTThe result of the assembly polls in Haryana has warmed my heart. Not to be mistaken to be a Narendra Modi Bhakt, the results have nevertheless left me...
Delhi Police has lost its honour
16 Oct 2014 4:39 AM ISTThe conduct of the Delhi Police in the past few months shows that the force which was reckoned globally till sometime back as one of the best urban...
Cops sidestep SC orders in not booking Tharoor
14 Oct 2014 5:21 AM ISTLast week, soon after the second report from the panel of doctors from the forensic department of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)...
Buddha of our dreaded times
9 Oct 2014 2:56 AM ISTIt has been left to 79-year-old and ‘critically’ ill former chief minister Om Prakash Chautala to give the tenor of rusticity to the campaign. And he...
Cleanliness next to godliness
2 Oct 2014 4:41 AM ISTThus said Mahatma Gandhi in an essay published in Harijan issue dated 28 December 1947. Mahatma was a communicator extraordinaire and made his point...
Enfeebling creative genius
25 Sept 2014 3:42 AM ISTIn the second week of September every year, like several other annual rituals, we also follow the rite of ‘celebrating’ Hindi as our official...