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‘If they can’t eat roti, let them go and eat boti’
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: As I was walking with my hot upma plate at the UNI Canteen in Delhi, who do I notice sipping a cup of coffee looking in the …
CHURUMURI POLL: Is Sushma right about Modi?
Yet another inkling of the internecine war in “Generation Next” of the BJP has come, with the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, brusquely turning away …
What what can can Sri Sri tell tell IITians IITians?
PanIIT, a conglomeration of alumni of the seven Indian Institutes of Technology, is to hold its 2010 conclave from October 29-31 in New Delhi. The focal theme of the three-day …
As Voltaire said, “I disapprove of what you say…’
Editorial in The Hindu: “In his classic defence of free speech, On Liberty, John Stuart Mill laid down what is known as the ‘harm principle.’ It postulates that the only …
ARUNDHATI ROY: Why I said what I said
By ARUNDHATI ROY I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s papers say that I may be arrested on charges of sedition for what I have said at recent public …
What the Gandhis could learn from the Nehrus
With over 400 government initiatives, institutions, projects and programmes named after Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi or Rajiv Gandhi, the historian Ramachandra Guha takes a trip down memory lane in the …
Why does the BJP persist with Operation Kamala?
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: One puzzling aspect of the political scenario in Karnataka has been the ruling BJP’s penchant for poaching the members of the opposition. One could …
