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CHURUMURI POLL: Has India lost moral compass?
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 …
Losers of the world unite. It’s all there to win.
Former Union minister and Congressman turned BJP man, Arun Nehru, in Deccan Chronicle: “The winners in the 2009 elections will be those who are able to maintain or improve upon …
Why didn’t ol’ William ask: ‘What’s in a number?’
Arun Nehru in Deccan Chronicle: “The situation is very complicated for all three formations (United Progressive Alliance, National Democratic Alliance and the Third Front) and few can predict today the …
There is only so much Google ads can achieve
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 …
24 *asterisks* on the long, tortuous road to 272
Both the UPA and the NDA have seen parties exiting their ranks. The Third Front seems to be chugging along nicely, and smaller micro-alliances have cropped up. Yet, Congress man …
Of course, predictions have gone wrong before
Before the Congress ran into trouble with RJD and SP, after the BJP broke off with the BJD, on the eve of the PMK deserting the UPA, and as TRS …
The King of Good Times rescues a very Old Monk
ASHWINI A. writes from Bangalore: Something that Indians rever was on the auctioner’s block in the Big Apple last night: the personal effects of the most selfless human to have …
A crash course in catching, fielding for our heroes
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 …
CHURUMURI POLL: Who will you vote for?
The latest terror attack on Bombay has the potential to alter the political landscape of the country, which may perhaps be one of the objectives of the perpetrators. While we …
Independents Day has well and truly begun
“Truly alarming is single-digit inflation” E.P. Unny in The Indian Express *** Chief ministerial posts, deputy chief ministerial posts, cabinet berths, ministerial portfolios, renaming of airports, Rs 25 crore to …
Is an MP’s loyalty only worth Rs 25 crore in 2008?
The grisly sight of law-makers being bought out like horses to shore up governments is an old story, as anyone acquainted with the Veerappa Moily tapes from the early 1980s …
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