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Did R-Day Tipu tableau insult Kodavas & Jains?
ARUN PADKI writes: 65 years after to the day when the Constitution of India was adopted paving the way for the birth of Republic of India, has the government of …
OPINION POLL: Should opinion polls be banned?
“Vinaasha kaale vipareetha budhdhi,” is a saying which captures the mood of the Congress-led UPA government very well. As it swerves into the final lap of its second term in …
Is ‘Modi Media’ partisan against Rahul Gandhi?
In a cash-strapped election season which has seen “corporate interest and media ownership” converge, it is arguable if Narendra Modi is getting a free run. Every whisper of the Gujarat …
POLL: Should FDI cap in media be enhanced?
With the economic downturn threatening to turn into a full-blown recession and with the finance minister reduced to going around the world with a hat in hand, the Congress-led UPA …
Why Food Security Bill makes parties insecure
The Centre’s food security ordinance passed hurriedly recently, and the Karnataka government’s Anna Bhagya scheme launched last week, have, in their own ways, provoked a fierce political reaction that is …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will reforms result in UPA-III?
A week is a long time in politics; ten days is an eternity. Ten days ago, the Congress-led UPA government was weighed down by the scams and scandals that have …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will Pranab be a ‘good’ Prez?
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 …
CHURUMURI POLL: Abdul Kalam for President?
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, …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will BJP win Karnataka again?
As if to show that India’s two biggest political parties are cut from the same tainted cloth, the Congress-led government at the Centre and the BJP government in Karnataka have …
CHURUMURI POLL: Will Manmohan Singh survive?
In its second term in office, the UPA government of Manmohan Singh has been dealt several body blows that could have completely ennervated and incapacitated a lesser man. Scam after …
What if Steve Jobs were prime minister of India?
ARVIND SWAMINATHAN writes from San Francisco: India was a key detour in the earthly journey of Steve Jobs. He came to Benares in the early 1970s looking for what most …
Is it time for Sonia Gandhi to be prime minister?
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 …
CHURUMURI POLL: India, intolerant to dissent?
After evicting Baba Ramdev‘s congregation in the dead of night, Delhi police have denied permission to Anna Hazare and gang from holding a protest against that eviction at Jantar Mantar …
CHURUMURI POLL: Assembly polls, UPA or NDA?
Friday the 13th, of May 2011, is clearly D-day in Indian politics. The fate of the assembly elections in two States—West Bengal and Kerala—over which the Left parties have lorded …
CHURUMURI POLL: Manmohan, still ‘Mr Clean’?
Manmohan Singh‘s unique selling proposition (USP), especially with the urban middle-class, has been his squeaky clean image in the “cesspool of Indian politics”. No scam or scandal or slipup under …
BARKHA DUTT on the allegations against her
After lying low for a week following the Outlook* and Open magazine cover stories on her conversations with the lobbyist Niira Radia, the NDTV anchor Barkha Dutt has provided her …
CHURUMURI POLL: Manmohan, PM till 2014?
While almost every pundit worth his pixel is writing his political obituary on autopilot, prime minister Manmohan Singh has bravely stuck his neck out and said there is no question …
Is Manmohan Singh near his ‘best-before’ date?
Is change in the air in New Delhi? First, everybody and his uncle have been attacking him for the bushfires raging across the nation—Telangana, Kashmir, Maoist terrorism, corruption, price rise, …
‘Politics is about solving, not evading, problems’
Pratap Bhanu Mehta in the Indian Express: “The scandal of Indian politics is not simply that the prime minister is politically weak; it is that those who are politically strong …
Everybody loves a cheap, vegetarian thali–II
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), …
An EGOM a day keeps the doc’s decisions away
A standout feature of the accident-prone second term of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has been its seeming inclination to act first and think later, be it the …
Who’s running the Feudal Republic of India? ANC.
E.R. RAMACHANDRAN writes: I met the Ace Political Expert (APE) at Cheluvamba Park doing his yogic walk. After a couple of rounds, he sat on the stone beach. He beckoned …
Is Manmohan Singh becoming a “Rollback PM”?
Yashwant Sinha, finance minister in the former BJP-led NDA regime, had a well-earned reputation as “Rollback FM”. Given the speed with which key policy decisions taken in haste are being …
One question I’m dying to ask Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met the ladies and gentlemen of the Indian media for the second time in six years on the completion of the first year of his second …
Why Manmohan should talk to the media more
B.V. RAO writes from New Delhi: On Monday, May 24, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will address a press conference in New Delhi to unveil the report card of his government’s …
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