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Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru: naive and romantic?
India’s first Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru has been called many things by his detractors—and he still is called many things by his detractors—who blame him for most of India’s …
CHURUMURI POLL: ‘President’ Patil, a disaster?
It seems unfair that the whole world should be piling on India’s first woman president to be, but here’s a simple question: Will Pratibha Patil as President prove to be …
A righthand legbreak ‘batsman’ bowls a googly
Former Karnataka medium pacer Doddanarsaiah Ganesh joined the Janata Dal (Secular) on Wednesday in the presence of Mohammed Azharuddin, his first captain in the four Tests he played for India. …
For the doyen of downtrodden, assets is all Maya
The Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has filed her latest declaration of assets and liabilities, and it provides conclusive proof—if proof were ever needed for something so conclusively proven—that Indian …
Congrats: Medicines were cured of your disease
MADHUSUDHAN S. RAO forwards an ayurvedic centre’s all-inclusive publicity campaign. OTOH, you can laugh at the fantastic claims and the imaginative use of the English language. OTOH, you can marvel …