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Will Narendra Modi lead Karnataka BJP campaign?
PALINI R. SWAMY writes from Bangalore: “Narendra Modi vs Rahul Gandhi“: It makes for a sexy headline. And for an audience drawing shouting match on television. But as an analytical …
A Spaghetti Eastern that makes you say ‘Basta!’
The blazing row between India and Italy over the latter’s refusal to send back the two marines accused of killing two fishermen is proof, if proof were needed, that in …
In one-horse race, Rahul baba is a two-trick pony
One common lament against the “future former prime minister of India” (as opposed to the “former future prime minister of India“) is that Rahul Gandhi‘s views on the pressing issues …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will Mittal Steel get the land?
After battling dissidence and other problems for the better part of 2009, Karnataka chief minister B.S. Yediyurappa has decided to take on 2010 head-onIn Delhi this week to attend the …
CHURUMURI POLL: Are minorities unsafe in India?
The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom has included India in the watchlist of countries which have failed to protect religious minorities, citing a “disturbing increase” in religious violence. …
‘New and unsettling forms of social polarisation’
Pratap Bhanu Mehta in The Indian Express: “The BJP is seriously flailing. The party’s central command has no willingness or ability to tame and discipline its units in different States. …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will this man ever be the PM?
The decision of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) to call off its ten-year-old alliance with the BJP over seat-sharing in Orissa in the coming general elections throws a major spanner …
God save Hinduism from the Hindu lunatic fringe
In the two months since the Orissa disgrace began, 50,000 Christians have been rendered homeless, many of their homes burnt. But Mohan Joshi, central unit secretary of Vishwa Hindu Parishat …
‘Dalits assertion in Orissa unbearable for Hindus’
R. Akhileshwari, Deccan Herald‘s veteran Hyderabad correspondent, quotes Andhra Pradesh activists working in Orissa as saying that the empowerment and economic improvement of Dalits is at the core of the …
When Greyhounds were shot like sitting ducks
ALOK PRASANNA writes from Bangalore: Between bellyaching about the rising prices and the fickle furore over the allotment of land to the Amarnath shrine, not so speak of the moaning …