CHURUMURI POLL: Could Jayalalitha be PM?
Counting the chickens before they are hatched, is a familiar human frailty. And, as elections draw near with intimations of the mortality of the Congress-led UPA, there are many who …
Counting the chickens before they are hatched, is a familiar human frailty. And, as elections draw near with intimations of the mortality of the Congress-led UPA, there are many who …
In politics, like in cricket, nothing is in the realm of the impossible. And it is not over till the last ball is bowled (and sometimes not even that, if …
In its 62nd year as a Republic, India presents a picture that can only mildy be termed unedifying. Scams are raining down on a parched landscape with frightening ferocity. From …
After threatening to leave the Bharatiya Janata Party virtually every fortnight since he resigned from office in disgrace under a haze of sleaze and corruption in July 2011—and after making …
After weeks and months of speculation, there is finally some official activity in the race for the next President of India. The Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee says the UPA …
It is a reflection of the current state of Indian politics that even as boring an exercise as the presidential election has all the markings of a heart-stopping show, which, …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Uttar Pradesh has proved once again the trend observed in the assembly elections in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu last year that political changes …
MATHIHALLI MADAN MOHAN writes from Hubli: Greater participation of voters in the poll process keeps democracy alvie and vibrant. This has been proved in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal …
D.P. SATISH writes from New Delhi: Even though Sarekoppa Bangarappa spent almost 15 years in the national capital New Delhi as a four-time MP—he entered the Lok Sabha on a …
Plenty of pixels have been expended on Manmohan Singh‘s inquisition on television against the backdrop of the scams enveloping his government, and the jury is agreed that the prime minister …
The Union cabinet meets this evening to decide on including a column on “caste” in the 2011 censu, a move seen as a tacit quid pro quo for the support …
Union law minister Veerappa Moily while receiving an award for his five-volume Shri Ramayan Mahanveshanam, yesterday: “It is instances like Sita‘s fire ordeal which firmed our resolve for the women’s …
In The Telegraph, Calcutta, Sankarshan Thakur reports on the antics of the nation’s leaders on whom our democracy rests on budget day: “But beyond these and few more, Pranab Mukherjee’s …
At Chrismtas-eve celebrations at the CP stadium in Gulbarga on Sunday, Karnataka minister for animal husbandry Revu Naik Belamgi (right) gets into a bout with a competitor, proving that Mulayam …
D.P. SATISH writes from New Delhi: For the first time perhaps in post-Independence history, three very vital ministries on Raisina Hill—home, defence and external affairs—are in the hands of South …
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 …
If the Congress and BJP and Mayawati can use the wired world to get the message across to the voter, surely so can Mulayam Singh Yadav, Lalu Prasad Yadav and …
Every single opinion poll so far has refrained from even venturing to suggest that either of the two “national” parties may touch the “magical” 150-mark on their own. But The …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The IPL boss and future BCCI chief, Lalit Modi, was a worried man. Irfan Pathan had muffed a sitter of Tilakaratne Dilshan in the T20 match against …
The controversy over the decision of the Maoist government of Nepal to force priests from Karnataka at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu to resign and appoint Nepalese priests in their …
History, it is said, first repeats itself as a tragedy, then as a farce. But usually no one is laughing, no one is even noticing. *** From Deccan Herald, 25 …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I happened to run in to Nanubhai on Dalal Street. He was eating Khaman Dhokla in a farsan shop. “Khem cho, Nanubhai?” “Saru che.” He was looking …
The following is the English translation of the affidavit filed in Hindi by Suhail Ahmed, alias Suhail Hindustani, alias Raja Hindustani, the alleged go-between in the cash-for-votes scandal that rocked …
Towards draw of stumps on day one, Team Manmohan looks like it might score 271 in 20 hours. Or it might not. But sometime in the year 2025, seventeen years …
R. Ramaswamy Iyengar in a letter to the editor of Praja Vani: “Some 58 years ago, N. Keshava Iyengar was the mayor of the Bangalore City Corporation. A staunch Congressman …