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Is this dude responsible for our English vyamoha?
VIJAY M forwards Lord Macaulay’s address to British Parliament on 2 February 1835. *** “I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one …
Why is it a crime to know our mother tongue?
SUMA RAMANNA writes from Madras: Can we not survive in modern India without being able to speak English fluently? This was the question that came to my mind when I was …
CHURUMURI POLL: Are the rich getting richer?
83,000 millionaires in a country of a billion may be a drop compared to the 27 lakh millionaires in a United States with a quarter of our population. Still the news that …
TOP SECRET: Who is that diplomat?
A handsome Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, currently in the news, used to write a weekly column on diplomacy for the now defunct Illustrated Weekly of India under the pseudonym "Akbar …
Won’t you help a former prime minister in need?
Atal Behari Vajpayee has revealed to Shashi Tharoor that he is working on his memoirs; a 200-250 page account of his time at the helm. It is not exactly a chronicle …
Pandit Nehru goes the way of black sheep in MP
You would expect that our poor, bankrupt State governments in the Hindi belt woud have lots of things to worry about. Like water. Like roads. Like industries. Like female foeticide. But, no, they …