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How much is Rs 30 crore per hour for two years?
With a drought that everybody loves around the bend, P. Sainath of The Hindu tears into the hypocrisy of a national discourse that wails about “fiscal imprudence” when farmers are …
Tweet, tweet, who’s there? Ghulam Nubbyazz
With middle-class India—not rural India, or the poor sections of middle-class India—in the throes of a fine slew, GAUTAMA P. hacks into the Titter account of health minister Ghulam Nabi …
If only Thorat had stroked the throat like this
Maharashtra agriculture minister Balasaheb Thorat is “in the dock” (for the next few hours and few minutes) for fondling a tiger cub in Nagpur zoo. Netaji claims he did nothing …
Everybody loves a good, cheap, vegetarian thali*
When the average worth of each MP in the current Lok Sabha is Rs 5.1 crore, when the average assets of each minister in sadda Manmohan‘s team is Rs 7.5 …
Didn’t human rights matter before Shah Rukh?
PARTHA BANERJEE writes from New York City: Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan was detained at a New Jersey airport and interrogated for two hours before the US authorities let him …