Central Vista is NOT an ‘Essential Service’, Oxygen Supplies & Vaccines Are!
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Elections 2021 Ten BIG Takeaways
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2024 isn’t yet Modi Vs Mamta : We make the same mistake election after election. No 2 elections are the same. Mamta won Bengal because she was...
Can GOD get you an ICU Bed?
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27 years ago, I moved to Delhi from Mumbai.. 1994 it was.. the previous 18 months covering the Mumbai riots and blasts had scared me and I...
Maha Kumbh Faith Is Not Above Covid
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A few days ago, a well known politician sent me a whatsapp message: ‘are you seeing the pictures at the Kumbh Mela in Hardwar, no masks, no social...
Crazy Kiya Re ‘New’ India in Crazy Times
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‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness…’ : Charles Dickens...
Election Commission: Neutral Umpire or Twelfth Man?
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This is election season in India and I want to raise a contentious issue by posing a simple direct question: is the Election Commission a neutral umpire...
Khaki ‘Gangs’ of Mumbai
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Today’s topic is the mysterious Ambani bomb scare case that has sparked so much controversy. Actually, I would rather call it the Mansukh Hiran case because at the...
‘Pro Muslim’ Party?: Congress’s ‘Secular’ Crisis
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At an India Today media conclave in early 2018, Sonia Gandhi made a rather candid confession: the BJP, she said, had managed to convince many people that the...
Sunny Days @ 50
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I am a 70s kid, or like to at least believe I am one. The 70s were India and Indira Gandhi’s decade of socialism and the...