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The world’s worst-performing Olympic country?
With the Olympic Games in Beijing scheduled to begin at 8 am on the 8th day of the 8th year, Foreign Policy magazine lists the “The World’s Worst Olympians“. On top …
CNN-IBN clarifies on role in cash-for-votes sting
Caught in the cross-fire in the cash-for-votes scandal that rocked the trust motion in Parliament on July 22, Rajdeep Sardesai, editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN, has issued a statement on the channel’s purported …
Biggest. Largest. Highest. Mostest. Anywhere.
ASHVINI A. writes from Bangalore: The Bangalore edition of The Hindu has a piece today on the second unit of the Global Education Centre coming up on the Mysore campus …
Whodunit? Depends on who you want to believe.
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The one crore rupees that were tabled in the Lok Sabha —the sanctum sanctorum of our democracy—has naturally created tremors across the world. “Whodunit?” is the question newspapers …
One question I’m dying to ask Sushma Swaraj
If the grisly sight of bombs tearing off lives and limbs in Ahmedabad and Bangalore doesn’t get your stomach churning, the conspiracy theorising by our political parties should. Sushma Swaraj, …
Is the Kargil victory something to be ashamed of?
At a little past 11.30 pm last Saturday, an SMS came from Sudheendra Murali, a friend in Bangalore: “Kargil Forgotten.” To a South Indian with not a single member of the …
What if Kalavathi lived behind Rahul’s house?
Each time they open their mouth, Indian politicians try to show how much they are in contact with the aam admi and aam aurat. On election tours, they hop off …
