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In the run-up to the 2009 national election campaign, when Prakash Karat was taking away UPA allies and collecting all...

This bit of wisdom I learnt at school, even if it was not at my own. It was at New...

This must be our most over-analysed set of by-elections ever. One obvious reason is that these relieve us from the...

Ordinary lives are cheap in India. So all government has to do in name of disaster management is to dole...

A busy foreign policy season first up in a new prime minister’s tenure is a gift, a bit like cricket’s...

The BJP-led NDA will fight elections together and we will have a common minimum programme (CMP). We will sit together...

The mention of filmmakers Fahad Mustafa and Deepti Kakkar, or “actors” Loha Singh and Ritu Maheshwari, may make you wonder...

Answer this one honestly. In all your life, have you seen anybody else, or specifically, any public figure who resembles...

I had promised to write specially to my fellow reporters. I am delivering on it now, sure enough, just before...

Writings on the Wall is a metaphor I use for a  different series of writings, from travels across India, mostly...