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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...

October 31, 2012
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Stuck in a time warp

Nitin Gadkari isn’t quite known to mind his language. A few weeks after he took over as BJP president, he expressed himself with typical candour to a group of...

October 17, 2012
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From rumble to a roar

At a seminar in Delhi a few years ago, a soft-spoken, petite woman in a crumpled sari was one of the panelists. She engaged in the debate and then...

October 3, 2012
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The topi has to fit

In the early 1990s, when TN Seshan as Chief Election Commissioner was the flavour of the season, a packed Rotary club meeting in Mumbai asked him to stand for...

September 19, 2012
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Playing to the gallery

Dear Mamata-di, Let me at the very outset express a sneaking admiration for the manner in which you have proved your critics wrong yet again: you don’t just bark,...

September 5, 2012
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An ugly parochialism

Dear Raj, This is the second open letter I am writing to you since, as was the case four years ago, you refused to do interviews in any language...

August 22, 2012
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Douse the fire, now

For a city which has seen so much bloodletting in recent years, it is rather strange that Mumbai’s elite still gets shocked every time the city erupts into another...

August 8, 2012
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Tyranny of distance

In an emotionally surcharged and polarised polity, even riot politics can become a zero-sum game. So any television debate on Gujarat 2002 must necessarily draw an analogy to the...