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If Delhi was a batsman, it would be in the IPL
One of the miracles of the mobile phone is that it has replaced a concern for the human condition with a question about his physical location. So, no longer does …
Rajdeep and Barkha must decline the Padma Shri
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from Madras: Now that CNN-IBN’s editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai and NDTV’s managing editor Barkha Dutt have become the first television journalists in the history of independent India to …
Why January 26 is more important than August 15
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Hyderabad: The dominant image of Republic Day that tends to stick in one’s mind is that of soldiers marching in step, tanks and artillery rumbling down …
The bulltaming that the Supreme Court can’t ban
P. Mahmud has an excellent cartoon in today’s Deccan Herald, in which he marries two continents, two cultures, and two different situations. He appropriately calls the taming of the bull, …
An ungrateful ant wails before a mountain of aces
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: On 20 January 1961, in his inaugural address after taking over as the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy said: “Ask not what your country …