Former President of India Pranab Mukherjee looks set to keep his date with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in Nagpur on Friday, June 7. The American academic and one-time state …
Regional politicians somewhat fluent in the English language, who know how to throw a good party, send a nice Diwali gift and make the odd phone call, have generally enjoyed greater …
Poverty is big business in a poor country especially on the eve of elections. As poll booths hover over the horizon, ruling parties suddenly discover what a fabulous job they …
With Pranab Mukherjee, an acknowledged man of letters, moving into the Rashtrapati Bhavan as President, the library is being dusted and brought back into shape. And the oldest book …
At the end of a long and distinguished career in politics, Pranab Mukherjee has finally ascended Raisina Hill to become the 13th President of India. Almost to a man, every …
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 …
The diagnosis of the UPA’s chronic illness since the 2009 polls has been markedly conventional. Everybody agrees that prime minister Manmohan Singh has messed up big-time, and that there has …
The irony is stark. The tenure of an acclaimed economist has seen galloping inflation running over the aam admi on whose shoulders his government came to power. Even while the …
While the nation gets titillated this week by Suresh Kalmadi‘s ravenous appetite, last week by the Reddy brothers’, the previous week by Sharad Pawar‘s (and his adorable daughter Supriya Sule‘s), …
SHAH ALAM KHAN writes from New Delhi: To qualify as an Indian, it is essential that you love cricket, it is important that you gossip, it is vital to fall …
One week ago, Pranab Mukherjee‘s first full budget in the UPA’s second innings, with the proposal to increase duty on petroleum products, sparked the first ever walkout by a combined …
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 …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: The “Kitchen Cabinet” meeting began although the chairperson Sonia Gandhi was yet to arrive. Since it was already past lunch hour, the “Kitchen Cabinet” decided to have …
The Bogus Austerity Drama (BAD) has so far been confined to a) S.M. Krishna and Shashi Tharoor moving out of their five-star Rs 1.5 lakh-a-day suites, b) Sonia Gandhi and …
With middle-class India—not rural India, or the poor sections of middle-class India—in the throes of a fine slew, GAUTAMA P. hacks into the Titter account of health minister Ghulam Nabi …
The big crib about the 2009 Union budget is that it doesn’t send out any signal whatsoever on “reforms”. That there is no talk of disinvestment, no talking of parting …
An octopus, it is said, can make a great economist. Reason: it can say “on the other hand” seven times more than their more than two-handed counterparts. Especially when the …
Any fool can write on the budget after it is presented, and most do. Bibek Debroy imagines Mamata Banerjee‘s railway budget before it is presented, in The Indian Express: “Madam …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: In a rare show of friendship and camaraderie amidst hectic campaigning, politicians of various hues got together and played a five-overs-a-side tennis ball cricket match in Mysore, …
Why was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in such a tearing hurry at the G-8 summit in Japan last week to announce that India would go ahead with the Indo-US deal while external …
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN is plain baffled: How come our editors and anchors find the time and inclination to write long considered essays on “Growing coffee in Latin American countries” or “Growing …
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