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What your nela and what your jala says about you
First Cauvery, now Hogenakal: Karnataka’s river of distrust with Tamil Nadu runs deep. After sparring over how to share water from the Cauvery, the two States have now locked horns …
Is it a crime to break a marriage engagement?
What is the legal status of a marriage engagement ceremony? Is breaking an engagement an actionable offence? In case there is no engagement and no ceremony, and the couple are …
When our politicians go strictly by the book
“One party’s discovering India, and the other’s experimenting with the truth.” E.P. Unny in The Indian Express Also read: CHURUMURI POLL: Is L.K. Advani lying on IC-814?
One-thousand three-hundred & ninety-four words
In 1997, when Outlook crowned the then Congress president Sitaram Kesri as the Villain of the Year, the magazine’s managing editor Tarun J. Tejpal described why Kesri had been picked …
‘First businessmen, now their agents in the RS’
Anil Ambani‘s decision to hitch his wagon to the Samajwadi Party and become a member of the Rajya Sabha was generally seen to have been one of the contributing factors …
Cricket’s cheap kicks and lingering hangovers
Ramachandra Guha in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “In my opinion, Test cricket may be compared to the finest Scotch, 50-overs a side to Indian Made Foreign Liquor, and 20-20 to the …
Ours is not to ask why; ours is to just do and die
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: My colleague D.P. Das Gupta (all names changed) called and confirmed he would be coming to Madras by the next day’s evening flight. DP was coming with …
