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‘Congress heading for majority in Karnataka polls’
The first pre-poll survey in Karnataka is predicting a slim, significant and even surprising majority for the Congress in the 2008 Assembly elections, and a dip for both the BJP …
Each time you pick up a soap, little Azizah gasps
K.T. VISHNU KUMAR, in Melbourne, forwards a YouTube video of a Greenpeace campaign against Unilever (Hindustan Unilever in India), makers of Lux, Dove, Surf and virtually every other soap, detergent …
Can parties be sued for unfulfilled promises?
U.R. Anantha Murthy in an interview with Vicky Nanjappa of rediff.com and India Abroad: Q: Do you think we need to introduce a law wherein political parties, which do not …
Tomorrow’s photograph today? Or is Krishna…?
The assembly elections in Karnataka is just what the editor ordered for sub-editors. With a canvas populated by a scowling B.S. Yediyurappa, a spiffy S.M. Krishna, the earthy H.D. Deve …
If parties don’t politicise misery, the people will
M.J. Akbar in his weekly column in Khaleej Times, Dubai: “The Left, [the raft on which the UPA government has been sailing for four years] which is still anxious to …
Announcement: Vinod Mehta in Bangalore
PRESS RELEASE: Vinod Mehta, editor-in-chief of Outlook magazine, is to deliver the convocation address to the graduating class of 2008 at the Indian Institute of Journalism & New Media (IIJNM), …