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Meet India’s newest toilet cleaners, the Brahmins
FRANCOIS GAUTIER has a new video up on YouTube on how Brahmins and Upper Caste Hindus have become a minority in India. Once belonging to the priestly class, many now …
How legal was Adam Gilchrist’s “hidden ball”?
Two days after Adam Gilchrist‘s slaughter of the lambs in the finals of the 2007 World Cup, cricket’s fans and fanatics are still coming to terms with the onslaught that …
CHURUMURI POLL: Introduce right to recall?
Following the spate of scandals involving Members of Parliament in recent times—human trafficking, cash for questions, engineered defections, misuse of privileges, etc—the Lok Sabha speaker Somnath Chatterjee has said he …
Is a media house more powerful than a minister?
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN asks from Hubli: Is a media house more powerful than a minister in the State government of Karnataka? Seemingly so, going by what happened in Hubli in …
Shed a tear for these very important persons
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Two very important persons died in Mysore Mandya last week. Not VIPs of the sort who populate our pages and screens these days, not VIPs who put …