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Modi back for another term

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Final count may take time, but t is clear that Bhartiya Janata Party and prime Minister Narendra Mondi is set for another term of five years as they are set to get the same number of seats as in 2014 elections. The Congress party position looks the same as in 2014, t...

Mall, Malls and Malls..!

It just was a road next to a creek a few years ago, but last night as I drove down that same road, once so empty, but now jammed with vehicles, all I saw were malls, malls, and malls. “There seems a lot of money around,” I muttered. “I agree,” said my friend, “but is ...

NDA win decisive, but questions remain

It is a decisive win for PM Modi, BJP and NDA. And Modi government 2.0 is on the anvil. And we need to explore the reasons too. On the Congress led UPA side, situation by 12 noon has shown that it is relatively stronger this time around though far from a win. And regi...

Exit polls and a unanimous decision..!

In my very fertile imagination, the three election commissioners who have fallen out with each other have agreed on something unanimously, “Exit polls must go!” “Why?” I asked helplessly. “Do you even realise what these exit polls are doing?” asked the government off...

Five more years of Modi will take India to a dark place

Indian elections are a marvel to behold. The rules stipulate that no citizen should have to travel more than 2km to vote. So the state goes to the voters. Carrying oxygen tanks, election officials scaled the Himalayas to erect a voting booth in a village in Ladakh, 4,5...

My Beauty Queen..!

She lived behind my house in a hut for just a year. She was leader of her little gang. I'd been sick that summer and had watched from my window as she led that gang to make discoveries they never knew before. They treaded cautiously past ant hill, where she told them ...

Iran: An unwinnable war

"After a long debate, the highest levels of the military could not forecast a way in which things would end favourably for the United States," said Richard Clarke, counter-terrorism adviser in the White House under three administrations. That was back in 2007, and he w...

English and our politicians..!

How our politicians love to say they hate English, yet if you see where their children go, it is to the best English schools. A few days ago I was having a chat with my accountant, a man who has worked for me for nigh over twenty-five years. "How's the family?" I aske...

Gratis advice for the next National Security Adviser

The right wing's information warriors that comprise self-selected nationalists, former spooks, unwary denizens of the strategic community, ruling party inclined hacks and paid-up members of the bhakt brigade, are having their last hurrah. Having manipulated opinion pol...

God is at your window..!

Many of us have a past! Some of us could have been alcoholics, or had an affair, or done something or other, which even though we've repented about is used by others to remind us of our guilt: There's this story of a little boy visiting his grandparents on their farm....

Anatomy of killing the public intellectuals from Dabholkar to Gauri

"According to them, killing of unrighteous people by righteous people is not considered as violence or sin. To justify the killings, they bring in the analogy of a person affected by gangrene. If gangrene has affected the legs, the legs will have to be amputated. Likew...
 

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