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CHURUMURI POLL: Target Sri Sri Ravi Shankar?
The future Nobel laureate of India, Sri Sri Ravishankar (SSRS) of the Art of Living, is in the news. According to a PTI report, the 54-year-old spiritual guru escaped unhurt …
Who’s running the Feudal Republic of India? ANC.
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I met the Ace Political Expert (APE) at Cheluvamba Park doing his yogic walk. After a couple of rounds, he sat on the stone beach. He beckoned …
Rahul Gandhi’s ascension: A foregone conclusion?
It is rare for two columnists of diverse political leanings to begin their column on the same day in two different newspapers with the same words: “On June 19, Rahul …
CHURUMURI POLL: Are Maoists “terrorists”?
In theory, the motivation for the upsurge in Maoism in the second term of the UPA is said to be the hand over of vast tracts of tribal land to …
Is Manmohan Singh becoming a “Rollback PM”?
Yashwant Sinha, finance minister in the former BJP-led NDA regime, had a well-earned reputation as “Rollback FM”. Given the speed with which key policy decisions taken in haste are being …
Do it yourself: How to kill a City in 53 easy steps
Future historians looking for solid, incontrovertible evidence on how a mentally challenged civilisation which couldn’t think beyond its arse, nose or purse, killed a fine City, need look no further …
When the reservation chart had a sack order
Almost everybody seems to have an opinion, and not a good one at that, at prime minister Manmohan Singh‘s recent performance at his press conference in New Delhi, forgetting that …
