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Shoot me, the messenger

The late Edward S. Behr (Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English? besides much else), a delightfully versatile journalist-writer, used...

The Meena Kumari Politics

Last two years’ electoral politics has made one thing clear: You no longer win elections in India by reminding people...

It’s the Highest Office

Four interesting notions have lately emerged in the public discourse on the forthcoming presidential election. First, that the current jockeying...

The 24th Chief

He will count for no more than a footnote, albeit a sizeable, sad but unforgettable one, as his successors pick...

Crude Politics

UPA’s dismal political management turns a belated (and much needed) petrol price hike into an ‘event’ More than two months...

Anybody Out There?

Government’s inaction down the line is only matched by the silence at its top The flavour of this disastrous season...

Committee on Insecurity

That’s what the CCS has been reduced to: the top brass of this govt, each one looking over his shoulder...

Pranab, We Presume

It is not often that Renuka Chowdhury says something and makes you think. But in this case, you have to...

With Prejudice

By giving communal twist to naming of next Army chief, PIL tried to revive fears long buried until apex court...

BJP, The Lonely

UPA is sinking, but the BJP is adrift, having failed to reconfigure itself to a changing urban India There are...

The Sunday Spring

Why a lunch in Delhi and a pilgrimage to Ajmer could achieve more than any summit As a closed-door conversation...

Ministry Of Indefensible

To see our armed forces as a school of scandal is doing disservice to the nation and to the facts...