Sunday Sentiments
MANIFESTO PROMISES TO MAKE PARLIAMENT WORK
Published On April 14, 2024Normally I would not write about political manifestos. Most of the time neither the party nor the voter takes them seriously. But there’s a clause in Congress’s man...
Read more... | 0 CommentsUP AND CLOSE: ASHOK, THE IDOL OF MY YOUTH
Published On April 7, 2024I guess it’s not uncommon that when someone you are close to dies you’re flooded with memories of the association with them. Incidents, long forgotten, return with ...
Read more... | 0 CommentsA WORLD WAR II STORY OF MISPLACED PANIC, SCARE
Published On March 31, 2024Eighty years after it ended most people believe there’s very little we don’t know about the Second World War. Mukund Padmanabhan has just proved that wrong. Paradox...
Read more... | 0 CommentsWHEN KANDHAMAL CAST A SHADOW OVER BJD-BJP TIES
Published On March 24, 2024Politicians don’t like to be reminded of the past. For them it’s “a foreign country”. As L. P. Hartley put it “they do things differently there”. But that’s precisely what I intend to...
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