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January 27, 2010
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Back to square one

Indo-Pak cricket, like diplomatic relations between the two countries, suffers from schizophrenia. Rewind to January 1999 when a Chennai crowd gave a standing ovation to Wasim Akram’s men after...

January 13, 2010
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Actions tweet louder

If the twitterati were India’s voting class, then Shashi Tharoor would be the Supreme Leader. A few weeks ago, when Tharoor’s tweet on the government’s visa policies generated much...

December 14, 2009
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Drowning things out

Having grown up in the megalopolis, I have an obvious emotional attachment to Mumbai. Which is why when at a studio discussion this week, when a panelist referred to...

December 12, 2009
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A star is born

In politics, never write off anyone. A few months ago, I was invited by the Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) leader, and politician of the moment, K. Chandrasekhar Rao (KCR)...

November 25, 2009
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Still on a tinderbox

As the media goes into an overdrive on the first anniversary of last November’s Mumbai terror attack, we should remember that before 26/11, there was 12/3. Way back in...

December 24, 2008
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Something’s got to give

One of the more joyous moments of fatherhood was taking my son, then all of nine years, to watch an India-Pakistan one-day match in Lahore in 2004. Our Pakistani...

July 5, 2008
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In for a peasant surprise?

For someone who had finally been embraced by his party and anointed its new poster boy, Finance Minister P Chidambaram seemed awfully truculent a day after the Union Budget....

March 7, 2008
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‘Govt trapped in anti-BJP mode, distracted’ – Part 1

Rajdeep Sardesai of CNN-IBN interviews Shri L.K. Advani

February 20, 2008
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Reverse sweepstakesC

My father was obviously born in the wrong generation. For his first Test for the country in 1961, he got a cheque of Rs. 150. When he was part...

January 23, 2008
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Married to the mob

Last Saturday, as India was celebrating a famous cricket victory over Australia in Perth, NDTV’s Ahmedabad office was ransacked by a mob calling itself the Hindu Samrajya Sena. The...