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Democracy, dissent, and media
7 April 2016 2:54 AM ISTAbout a fortnight back in these very pages, I read an article titled “Manufacturing dissent in liberal democracy” penned by National Institute of...
Death of a Salesman aka Dentist
31 March 2016 3:20 AM ISTAbout two decades ago, as reporters covering the crime beat, we had gone to the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police of North-East district,...
Inept Bahuguna leaves BJP red-faced
30 March 2016 5:45 AM ISTSoon after taking charge in Dehradun, it became amply clear that the reins of the government were in the hands of his son Saket Bahuguna, then working...
Why blame BJP for Congress mess
24 March 2016 3:47 AM ISTCongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has taken to twitter to blame the Centre for the mess Harish Rawat-led Congress government of Uttarakhand finds...
BJP executive ups nationalism pitch
21 March 2016 6:25 AM ISTThe two-day national executive meeting of the ruling BJP, which concluded in the national Capital on Sunday, while rephrasing the political agenda of...
In defence of the Uniform
17 March 2016 2:40 AM ISTPeople in the profession of journalism have various jobs to perform. They are expected to know everything happening around the world and even an...
A Midsummer Night’s Dream at JNU
10 March 2016 3:18 AM ISTIt goes without saying that the headline for today’s Notebook has been inspired by William Shakespeare’s famous comedy penned sometime during the end...
EC sounds poll bugle for 5 states
5 March 2016 6:01 AM ISTPolls in the states of West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the Union territory of Puducherry would be held over 45 days beginning April 4...
Modi quotes Rajiv to take dig at Gandhis
4 March 2016 5:58 AM ISTHis appeal was however not without launching personal, albeit indirect, attack on the Congress party and its leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi.Modi began...
Ceding the nationalist space
2 March 2016 8:04 AM ISTPolitics of shoot and scoot makes Rahul a poor replica of Arvind KejriwalA large section of the media might be pretty happy to have cornered the...
Right strikes Left chord
1 March 2016 6:29 AM ISTJust in case the Finance Minister’s nearly two-hour speech did not carry the point deep enough that it was a pro-poor Budget, Prime Minister Narendra...
Passenger-friendly budget
27 Feb 2016 5:07 AM ISTThe Railway Minister in Narendra Modi government has a tough assignment at hand. While he has his task cut-out to make his mammoth department work as...