The special intensive revision of the Bihar electoral roll, ordered by the Election Commission on the 24th of June, has raised serious concerns and disturbing questions...
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I’ve tried hard to like cricket but I haven’t succeeded. Quite frankly, it goes on for too long. A lot of the time nothing or very little seems to happen. And other...
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Next year Veeraswamy, the oldest surviving Indian restaurant in Britain – actually, its owners claim it could be the oldest surviving Indian restaurant in the world â...
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Wednesday is the fiftieth anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. Her most authoritative and profound biographer, Srinath Raghavan, whose book ‘Indira Gandhi and ...
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I have to admit I was surprised. I knew he was a celebrity. On the subject of tigers he was a world authority. His forty books and his BBC series ‘Land of the Tigerâ€...
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I would have thought the Congress Party would look upon Shashi Tharoor as a prized asset, one of its most valuable members and a source of enormous pride. But, instead,...
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Odd as it may seem, I sometimes wonder if our judges are their own worst enemies. At times they can say the strangest things almost as if they’ve got carried away. Do...
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Most of us know a lot about the terror attack at Pahalgam, Operation Sindoor and the 4-day ‘war’. We’ve made it our business to find out. But there are other fact...
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I’m writing about what used to be a well-kept secret. Today it’s my intention to blow it to smithereens. It’s all about someone who’s not what he at first seems...
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I wish I had met Pope Francis. I wouldn’t say that of other famous people but of the Pope it’s true. He had a warm, genial, happy face. He smiled a lot and each tim...
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