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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
A SIMPLE rape case in Kolkata has blown up into political confrontation between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her opponents. A 37-year-old woman was ...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
THE season of Lent is the time of preparation for Holy Week, leading up to Easter. For many, it is a time to give up something like candy or smoking. It may be a ...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
I HAVE always considered that the success of lawyers’ movement in Pakistan in 2008 was its first war of independence. The formation of Pakistan was the result of a peaceful agreement which it signed with India under the aegis of the British government....
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
A DOZEN states have raised strong objections to the formation and the setting up of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) at Kolkata by the UPA government. ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
THERE is no home, there are only houses. We try to make homes out of houses, but in fact, home is projection – there is only a house – it feels cold. We...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
WHEN Saeed Naqvi suggested I hold a Mushaira in my flat, I readily agreed to do so. Saeed has a phenomenal memory and he delivers poems with...
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Monday, February 20, 2012
Politics is all about perceptions – public perceptions. Shivraj Patil was removed as Home Minister after the 26/11 atrocity in Mumbai because he was not articulate enough to paper over the holes in the nation’s security systems....
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Monday, February 20, 2012
IT looks like all is well when you break the poll code, if you later on are willing to apologise. The Election Commission (EC) put the UPA Law Minister Salman Khurshid on the dock when the latter made the ministry quota remark while campaigning in Uttar Pradesh....
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
WHAT will the UPA government do now? Mamata Banerjee, it’s ally, is furiously against the setting up of National Counter Terror Centre (NCTC) in West Bengal....
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
THERE is no surprise in the poll results: the expected has happened. The Mumbai voters stood by the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance. What becomes quite clear is that Balasaheb Thackeray has lost none of his charisma. ...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012
The wife was furious, “I cast my vote. Where is my free sari?”...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
WITH Harish Khare’s unceremonious exit as Media Advisor to the Prime Minister, to the surprise apparently of very few, one who has been in the business of news for the past sixty-five years wonders what, indeed, is expected of an Advisor. ...
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Friday, February 17, 2012
THE United States has swiftly moved an aircraft carrier to the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf, following the display on television of the nuclear progress made by Iran....
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Friday, February 17, 2012
PAYING homage to the Gautam Buddha for his renunciation of worldly attachments, Mahatma Gandhi wrote in the Indian Opinion on July 7, 1907, how in the sixth century B.C., Lord Buddha, after “suffering many privations, attained self-realization... and spread ideas of spiritual welfare among the people.”...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
ON the morning that I left Lucknow for Rae Bareilli, I discovered from the newspapers that Sonia Gandhi would be addressing a vishal rally in her constituency that day....
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
WHO is the culprit? It certainly is not the government of Iran who did it. The government would not have carried out a terrifying terror act in a friendly country. Iran’s confrontation with Israel is well known, but it would never have used the Indian soil to target Israeli diplomats. ...
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Thursday, February 16, 2012
ONCE a hunter got lost in the jungle. He tried for three days continuously, but he could not find any way to get out. He became desperate: he could not sleep, there was nothing to eat. After three days he thought ‘This is death. Now I cannot survive.’ He suddenly saw a man coming....
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
THE greatest courage in life is needed when you go inwards, for many reasons… The first is: it is a flight from the alone to the alone, it is going deeper into your aloneness....
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
PRIME Ministers of India and Pakistan have different stars to guide them. The Supreme Court of one country saves the prime minister while of the other asks his counterpart to appear before it for contempt. The cases have no similarity. Yet the message they convey is the same: the judiciary is independent and recognizes no pulls from any quarters....
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012
POLITICIANS, almost without exception, become richer after they win elections and get into positions of power. It is difficult to say how this happens. Before elections, candidates have to file affidavits declaring their assets. ...
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