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Once upon a time in India
18 Sept 2014 3:18 AM ISTWe had a very newsy week which just went by. A former Comptroller and Auditor General showed extra-ordinary entrepreneurship of converting a...
Setback for brand Modi
17 Sept 2014 5:34 AM ISTJust a few days back addressing an election rally in Jharkhand, party president Amit Shah had said that he would not announce a chief ministerial...
Practising political trapeze
11 Sept 2014 4:05 AM ISTThe Narendra Modi government has now been in the office for nearly a fortnight more than the 100 days against which its performance has been evaluated...
Old order needeth change
4 Sept 2014 3:57 AM ISTThe boarding schools, the last of the surviving British legacies, are under attack. The Scindia School incident left me worried for two reasons --...
Cleaning with wrong broom
28 Aug 2014 4:12 AM ISTUnion Minister of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) Dr Harshvardhan will not find himself covering with glory when Prime Minister Narendra Modi takes...
The tale of Attenborough’s tryst with Gandhi
26 Aug 2014 6:40 AM ISTEven after his death, he passed away at the ripe age of 90 in London on Sunday, Attenborough would be alive in the memory of generations of Indians...
An address to worry about
21 Aug 2014 3:57 AM ISTAround 8.30 pm on 16 August 2014, as debates raged on the television channels on the effectiveness of the address delivered by Prime Minister Narendra...
Judge’s command performance
14 Aug 2014 4:41 AM ISTOn Monday last, hearing a public interest litigation, a bench of Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice RM Lodha and Justices Kurian Joseph and...
Why BJP could lose in Delhi
6 Aug 2014 6:38 AM ISTLast Sunday read an innocuous news item in one of the newspapers, which said that 15 new officers have joined as assistant commissioners of Delhi...
Lacking in bench strength
31 July 2014 4:10 AM ISTToday in the notebook, as the first business-like session of the 16th Lok Sabha moves into the second month, it would be worthwhile to consider if...
This track doesn’t go anywhere
24 July 2014 3:55 AM ISTVeteran journalist Ved Prakash Vaidik could not have had it better. He grabbed the TRP ratings for channels, broke the trending records on the social...
Budget of political consolidation
17 July 2014 4:06 AM ISTThough the Constitution christens the Budget as annual financial statement, the fact is that it’s also a compendium of the government’s political...