I wonder how many of us really know the candidates we vote for? An organisation called the West Bengal Election Watch, under the guidance of the indomitable and indefatigable Bibhu Mohapatra, has ...
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Only an adult could say children don’t understand. And the fact is we say it often enough. But if you ask me the problem is the older we become the more we forget how much we knew when we were ...
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It was raining when I first met Pramod Mahajan. It was chilly too. We were sheltering under a small awning outside the FICCI Auditorium. The rain was beating down on me.

Pramod was tal...
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I must say we’re a strange lot. We have an uncanny knack of taking decisions which are correct in the narrowest sense of the term but on a broader and more meaningful canvas make little sense wh...
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How well informed are we? It’s a question I’m often asked by casual acquaintances. I daresay they’re only making polite conversation and don’t expect a detailed reply. But their queries ...
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It was his smile that I noticed first. It stretches from ear to ear and with it his eyes seem to light up. Odd though it may seem, it’s simultaneously shy and mischievous. Like a naughty boy�...
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“Well?” Even for Pertie it was an odd way to start a conversation. I could tell something was irritating him but decided to wait till he told me himself. It didn’t take long.

“A...
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Do you know what makes the English we speak so different to that spoken by the British? It’s not simply our accent and pronunciation, nor our vocabulary, or even our grammar, including the absen...
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Have you noticed how the relationship between the Government and the Left has changed? I’m not talking of small subtle shifts but a sea change. Because most of us are convinced the Government is...
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It’s odd how sometimes a politician’s logic can be impeccable but he may still fail to win the argument. When this happens, more often than not it’s because he did not appreciate the limitat...
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