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March 20, 2013
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Surname of the game

India’s two main national parties are facing distinctly contrarian leadership dilemmas: while the BJP is confronted with managing the vaulting ambitions of its multiple leaders, the Congress must deal...

March 6, 2013
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It is one vs the many

It is not without reason that the BJP in recent times has been referred to as the ‘Hindu Divided Family’. Impressed by the speech given by Sushma Swaraj at...

February 20, 2013
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Trouble with home minister Shinde

Every home minister of the country has had to live literally in the shadow of the first occupant of the post. In the stairway of North Block leading to...

February 6, 2013
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It’s noise, not news

American pop art icon Andy Warhol was probably right: everyone is looking for their 15 minutes of fame, only the time has now been compressed to a 15-second soundbite....

January 23, 2013
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The game’s wide open

There is nothing journalists and the viewer love more than a ‘big fight’. A Roger Federer is a great tennis player, but the legend is enhanced because of his...

January 9, 2013
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We must speak up now

It has been my experience that the best way to deal with political rabble-rousers is to call their bluff and bluster. I have never met Akbaruddin Owaisi, the 42-year-old...

December 26, 2012
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Communication error

In the classic BBC political satire serial, ‘Yes Minister’, the minister Jim Hacker asks his senior bureaucrat Sir Humphrey Appleby how to deal with a group of protesters. “Don’t...

December 12, 2012
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Modi versus the rest

Travelling into Gujarat during election time is like entering the kingdom of an absolute monarch. Never before has a state election been so completely dominated by the personality of...

November 28, 2012
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A polarising figure

‘Don’t insult me by calling me a politician. I am a political cartoonist!’ warned the Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, lighting up a pipe, glass of white wine in...

November 14, 2012
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Advantage Modi

Predicting elections can be injurious to the health of journalists and pollsters, more so when there is still a month to go before voting. Even so, there is a...