Sunday Sentiments
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I’m well aware most governments and civil servants believe ordinary folk like us are dimwits who will accept everything we are told. That’s true regardless of which...
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Is the Collegium System of choosing judges perfect? That’s what former Chief Justice Lalit has claimed in recent interviews. Indeed, he’s even suggested it’s intr...
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Bahrain is not a destination I would have chosen to visit. I used to think of it as a poor cousin of the Emirates and Qatar. But the truth is I knew nothing of the plac...
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We don’t really have a tradition of people who’ve held high office writing about how they’ve acquitted themselves. Montek Singh Ahluwalia is one exception. He’s...
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It was 7.00 in the evening and the end of a tiring day when she rang. “What do you think of cricket?”. From her voice I could guess she was one of those pretty yo...
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In the end it was a coronation. That it happened on Diwali would have mattered personally to the 42 year old devout hindu. However, I want to make a different point. Ri...
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The nationally embarrassing reports that cough syrups made by Maiden Pharmaceuticals are responsible for the death of 66 children in The Gambia are just a hint of the d...
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One of the joys of my job is publishers often send books and every now and then one turns out to be a gem. That’s certainly an apt description of Barry O’Brien’s ...
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Even Shashi Tharoor would concede his chances of becoming the next Congress president are slender but, frankly, that’s the wrong way of viewing his candidature. I’m...
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I know there’s an awful lot happening in the world and you can’t pay attention to everything but sometimes the things we fail to pick up or, even, ignore are both a...
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By Karan Thapar