The BJP’s race of aspiring (and perspiring) prime ministerial contenders is growing long—and wagging. On top of the pile, as always, is the “former future prime minister” himself, Lalchand Kishinchand …
The overcooked chickens of divisive politics are coming home to roost on the streets of Bombay for the cooks, chefs and cleaners who were dishing it out for decades. As …
Sachin Tendulkar‘s comment that Bombay belongs to India, and that he was a proud Maharashtrian but an Indian first, has predictably kicked off a storm with the hobbled Shiv Sena …
It would be an understatement to say that the trial in the November 26 attack on Bombay took a twist in the first three days of the week. It has …
Ramachandra Guha in The Telegraph, Calcutta: “Jawaharlal Nehru did not hope or desire that his daughter should succeed him as prime minister — a fact that is not as widely …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN in Vontikoppal accidentally receives a letter addressed to a resident of Raisina Hill in New Delhi. *** Dear Madam Rashtrapatiji: From one Maharashtrian to another on the eve …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: Bangalore in the 1950s and ’60s was still a Pensioners’ Paradise and very much a sleepy town. It was mostly divided into “City” and “Cantonment” with Basavanagudi …
It is open season on the Indian politician. E.R. RAMACHANDRAN forwards a copy of an open letter to prime minister Manmohan Singh, purportedly from a resident of Nepean Sea Road, …
First the uncle, then the nephew. India’s most cosmopolitan city, Bombay, is being destroyed bit by bit by cartoonists in the name of “reconstruction” of the Marathi ethos. If old …
The following is the editorial that appeared in Loksatta (published by the Indian Express Group) on Wednesday, June 4, on the Maharashtra government’s decision to install a gigantic statue of …
Kumar Ketkar, editor of the Marathi newspaper Lok Satta, writes in the Indian Express on Raj Thackeray‘s specious claim that his only aim (in targetting Biharis, etc) is to protect …
Back in the 1990s, freedom of expressionwallahs slammed Mani Ratnam when he arranged a private screening of Bombay for Bal Thackeray. The film had been cleared for release by the …
BHAMY V. SHENOY writes: As Raj Thackeray follows his uncle Bal Thackeray‘s footsteps in trying to tap revanchist linguistic and regional sentiments, we need to take a look at …
The abhorable Tebbit‘s Test conducted on Amitabh Bachchan by Raj Thackeray is proof, if proof were ever needed, that parochialism is the first refuge of the pathetic. In asking why …
Liberalisation may have dismantled the socialist scaffolding of the licence-quota-permit raj somewhat. But the reservation juggernaut is rolling merrily across the badlands of Bharat. 27% reservation for OBCs. 10% reservation …
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