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Just one hour a week is the answer to our political discontent 5 Aug 2013 | 12:10 pm
Democracy is as depressing in practice as it is uplifting in theory. There have been so many corruption scandals in the past few years but political parties refuse to learn. In Uttar Pradesh, which al...
Waiting for inspiration, sirji! 5 Aug 2013 | 12:08 pm
The spot fixing scandal in the Indian Premier League of cricket is only the latest disgrace in the sickening, never ending saga of moral failure in our national life. We have got so used to blaming go...
Narendra Modi: temptation of the middle class 13 May 2013 | 02:57 pm
The sudden ascent of stocky, 62 year old Narendra Modi as a serious contender for the nation’s leadership has taken people by surprise. The general election is still a year away but the average, open ...
Food security bill: Corruption by another name 6 Apr 2013 | 05:50 pm
On the same day as the central cabinet approved the food security bill two weeks ago, Delhi’s chief minister, Sheila Dixit, stood up courageously to defend the rising price of electric power in the De...
A Budget speech you will never hear 25 Feb 2013 | 04:52 pm
It is Budget time again and next Thursday the finance minister will address parliament with a speech which you will never hear except from my auto-wallah: Madam Speaker, I rise to present the Union ...
An aspiring young India needs a new liberal party 28 Jan 2013 | 04:21 pm
India is a nation in ferment. People have taken to the streets because they no longer trust the existing political order. The old way of doing politics is under challenge but a new way has not yet bee...
Stop talking, start doing 29 Dec 2012 | 01:09 pm
Ratan Tata is a reticent man. He is 74 and retires this month as chairman after guiding his group to be the country’s number one, $ 100 billion, in revenues. He commands respect not only from his 450,...
To equate capitalism with greed is a mistake 6 Dec 2012 | 01:11 pm
On an evening in early October , the announcer at one of our premier news channels screamed 'greed' while describing the misdeeds of the latest victim of Arvind Kejriwal. Earlier that day, Mr Kejriwal...
Will ‘tyranny of cousins’ decide who’ll rule in ’14? 10 Sep 2012 | 11:56 am
Andimuthu Raja, former telecom minister, having spent 15 months in jail under trial in the 2G spectrum scam, received a hero’s welcome in Chennai a few weeks ago. The ecstatic crowds burst firecracker...
Don't turn Gurgaon into a Faridabad 10 Sep 2012 | 11:53 am
It was the same question on everyone's lips. Aggrieved Suparna Prasad Dev asked, "If 50 policemen were at the scene, why didn't they act when a hundred Maruti workers brutally attacked managers and ki...
