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Sushil Kutty When The Donald tweeted “lies & deceit” it left Pakistanis foaming at the mouth and millions of Indians happy like hippies. But the happiness was short-lived. It did not take long for Pakistan to talk as if it had secret evidence to prove it doesn’t owe a...
By Kalyani Shankar Tamil super star Rajinikanth’s punch line in his super hit film Kabaali is “Naan Vandthttenu chollu (Tell them I have come.)” On Sunday, wearing a spotless white kurta and pants, Rajinikant announced to his millions of fans: “My entry into politics is certain”, thus ending...
By Arun Srivastava The tragedy of farmers and peasants has become so grave during the Modi government that even the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has to finally raise the issue with the BJP leadership. At a recent meeting of senior RSS leaders, attended by BJP president Amit Shah, it virtually...
Aditya Aamir Young farmers may end up committing suicide not because of crop failures or mounting debts but because women don’t want to marry a farmer and end up as widows! Even marriage bureaus have taken farmers out of their list of eligible bachelors. Farmer suicides in the country...
Sushil Kutty US President Donald Trump threw Pakistan under the bus on New Year Day and Pakistani journalist Rauf Klasra said a “bankrupt Pakistan is ready to go to war with the Superpower,” The sarcasm was lost on the Government of Pakistan, which called an “emergency meeting” and then...
By G. Srinivasan With traditional investment avenues not guaranteeing even plausible returns and the equity markets stymied by the greed and recklessness of firms floating even initial public offerings (IPOs), leave aside those established ones not living up to their reputations for fair-play, it is small wonder that legions...
Sushil Kutty A Tamil nationalist party called Naam Tamihzar has told Tamil superstar Rajinikanth – in whom “politics has entered” – to storm no Tamil bastion because he is not Tamizh. Well, to them should be asked the question, who was MGR and where from came Jayalalithaa? MGR for...
Sushil Kutty President Donald Trump has wished Happy New Year to his “supporters, haters, enemies and fake news.” And his ‘Rocket Man’ North Korean ‘enemy’ Kim Jong Un has said the “nuclear button is always on my desk” with all the US territories within range of his rockets. Sounds...
By L S Herdenia BHOPAL: Year 2017 was a highly stormy year both for the government and the people of Madhya Pradesh. Unprecedented happenings took place during the year. Most important was farmers’ agitation. The agitation was so violent that the police had to kill about six agitators...
By Arun Srivastava With British Prime Minister Theresa May unable to handle effectively the Brexit issue and the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn emerging as the most favoured candidate for the top job, a section of the Labour leaders opposed to Corbyn’s entry into the office of the...
By Nantoo Banerjee It is good to know that the government is working on a first ever national employment policy that will address the crucial issue of jobs creation in the country. The policy is intended to outline a comprehensive road map with focus on creation of quality...
Aditya Aamir Pakistan’s Foreign Office labelled Kulbhushan Jadhav as “India’s face of terror’ and said he was the vilest killer let loose on Pakistan soil by India’s spy agency the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), so vile that even his 70-year-old mother and wife are fair game to be...
By Ashis Biswas KOLKATA: It is not often that a particular election result pleases both winners and losers —although broadly, that was the gist of the recently concluded Gujarat Assembly polls. The BJP was happy to win (however narrowly) for a record sixth time bucking anti-incumbency issues, while...
By Sushil Kutty “It’s a great huge game of chess that’s being played—all over the world—if this is the world at all, you know.” – Lewis Carroll Where were they? What place was this? The flight from Dubai, and then here they were – the wife and...
By S. Sethuraman For a chastened Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who could just manage to keep Gujarat for BJP by striking a parochial chord and thereafter claiming an “emotional victory”, 2018 would be full of challenges on all fronts, political, social, and in reshaping our foreign policy in...
By Kalyani Shankar Tamil Nadu is back in focus again, this time in view of the surprising results of a by-election. They have raised a pertinent question whether corruption is an issue at all in this country. The results say no. Who would have thought that the people...
Sushil Kutty Ideas and opinions are dime a dozen. Everyone has one. But the odd one succeeds and the man becomes a millionaire! That one is a start-up. This one is political and just cannot win, an election for the Congress that is. It is that of an independent...
By Rahil Nora Chopra The Rajputs seem to have made a comeback as the ruling clan under the BJP. With the swearing in of Jairam Thakur, Himachal Pradesh is the fifth BJP-governed state with a Rajput chief minister after Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh. Rajasthan chief minister...