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Why the Queen sold her diamonds and jewels
The Wodeyars of Mysore are at once mighty and mysterious. Mighty, because they ruled for close to 550 years from AD 1399. Mysterious, because despite their long reign and the …
‘What’s the Left’s vision of India i.e. Bharat?’
Editorial in The Indian Express: “What is it that the Left really wants? That the clock be turned back? Increase taxation, renationalise privatised PSUs, bring back the controller of capital …
Is this the democracy our founders fought for?
BHAMY V. SHENOY writes: For nearly a week now, newspapers in Karnataka have been devoting an obscene amount of space for the visit of an ordinary Congress MP from the …
If you can’t win ’em, beat ’em with your prices?
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab government is offering Rs 1.5 crore per acre to farmers of Jhurheri village in return for land for the Chandigarh international airport. In addition, the government is …