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Gau Rakshaks are Anti Dalit: why BJP should worry

One of the lesser known facts perhaps of the 2002 Gujarat riots is that Dalits…

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25 years of Manmohanomics: Thank you Doc!

“I honestly believe that history will be kinder to me than the contemporary media, or…

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Don’t write off Smriti Irani

Life on Twitter can be nasty, brutish and short. Which is perhaps why within moments…

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The Muck Of Indian Politics

History repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce, but in Indian politics, the farce…

Netas and the love for land

In Maharashtra, and arguably across the country, the state is increasingly identified with real estate.…

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The Greatest

I never saw Muhammad Ali fight on television, never saw his great fights with Joe…

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PM Modi and the TINA factor

“We will change the face of India in ten years,” thundered Narendra Modi in a…

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Amma and Didi: Cult of the ‘Supremos’

On the face of it, Jayalalithaa and Mamata Banerjee are as different from each other…

Terror and politics

“Where you stand is determined by where you sit,” remarked Congress MP Shashi Tharoor recently,…

IPL is the soft target for water crisis

“Everybody loves a good drought” was award-winning journalist P Sainath’s rather intriguingly titled book a…