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Is it “End of Good Times?”
♦Rajiv Mishra♦ It was month of April, 2004. April 7, 2004 precisely. “I am that mysterious buyer,” Vijay Mallya roared at a press conference in Bangalore as he unveiled the…
It’s Nitish vs Rahul in 2014
♦ Rajiv Kumar♦ This statement was on the expected line, with script well written in advance at 1, Anne Marg. JD(U) spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP, Shivanand Tiwari’s criticism of…
India do not need another yatra, it needs vision
♦ TAVLEEN SINGH ♦ Nothing bears more eloquent testimony to the failure of politics and governance in India than the squalor of our towns and villages. I write this week’s…
Why Agnivesh is fleeing and what is he escaping from?
♦ RAHUL KASHYAP ♦ It has been reported that Swami Agnivesh has fled Delhi for now. He is also avoiding all media queries. There is hardly any surprise in it.…
We raise voice, Anna prevails, Democracy reloaded
♦ SANTOSH CHAUBEY ♦ 27th August 2011 is the epitome of the movement started on the historical day of August 16, 2011 when a simple but honest man of Gandhian…
Debate’s just started
♦ PRATAP BHANU MEHTA ♦ Indian democracy’s strength is its protean capacity for reinvention. It can turn crisis into renewal. Moments of extremism generate a counter-movement to produce a new…
Why the Ramlila surge worries minorities and those on margins
♦ SEEMA CHISHTI ♦ In the unseen and unheard margins of Team Anna’s Ramlila Surge, there’s a growing sense of disquiet —especially among minority and marginalised groups. Despite carefully choreographed…
Messianism versus democracy
♦ PRABHAT PATNAIK ♦ The substitution of one man for the people, and the reduction of the people’s role merely to being supporters and cheerleaders for one man’s actions, is…
Our county is poised at a dangerous place right now
♦ Arundhati Roy ♦ Our country is poised at a dangerous place right now for many reasons. There are all kinds of battles for supremacy. There are real resistances, there…
Why I’d hate to be in Hazare’s chappals
♦ Shobhaa De ♦ It’s scary being Anna Hazare. Here is one man who has been compelled to carry the collective hope of over a billion countrymen on his 74-year-old…
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