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Sushil Kutty The Bharatiya Janata Party appropriated Sardar Patel. The Congress it seems has taken ahold Vajpayee. Tit for tat. The poet prime minister would not have objected. Didn’t Nehru tell him he would be Prime Minister? He was more “Nehru” than many Congressi stalwarts and couldn’t bear to see...
Vajpayee Is In The Masterclass Of Indian Politics
By Anjan Roy Most politicians when they die, evoke mixed feelings and despise even when their achievements are supreme. In many time, they are bitterly remembered because they hit so many so hard. The singular exception about Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be that he will universally be...
Vajpayee Was Diametrically Opposite To Modi
By Amulya Ganguli History will see Atal Behari Vajpayee and Narendra Modi in completely different lights for being almost diametrically opposite to one another. The differences between the two BJP prime ministers related mainly to their temperament and outlook, which, in turn, guided their approach to governance...
Water Climbing Malayali Stair Cases, Implacable
By Aditya Aamir There is red alert in watered-out Kerala. Thousands are stranded on rooftops, and thousands more on/in “second floors”. Choppers are flying rescue sorties but many of the ‘Mayday-Mayday’ drown in air. Newspapers have stopped landing on stoops. If they do, they come rolled in watery weather....
Modi: Hopes Raised And Hopes Dashed
By Sushil Kutty The 72nd Independence Day was no different from the 71st or the 70th. That’s because the ‘Man’ on the ramparts of the Red Fort was the same who stood on August 15, 2014, ’15, ’16, ‘17 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, often referred to as ‘Feku’...
Vajpayee: In the Masterclass of Indian politics
By Anjan Roy Atal Behari Vajpayee will be remembered fondly by friends and foes alike. Those whom he fought will remember him, as always, being above board; those he had worked with will remember him with nostalgia. The very mention of very name brought to mind the broad visage...
Vajpayee: In the masterclass of Indian politics
By Anjan Roy Atal Behari Vajpayee will be remembered fondly by friends and foes alike. Those whom he fought will remember him, as always, being above board; those he had worked with will remember him with nostalgia. The very mention of very name brought to mind the broad visage...
Fear Stalks Rain-Ravaged Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: These are not frightening frames from an Alfred Hitchcock movie. These are shocking sights of a real-life tragedy unfolding its horrors. And it has been the lot of God’s Own Country to witness it. Kerala is no stranger to rain havoc and the resultant flood...
Is Modi a Hype or Real Achiever?
By K R Sudhaman Prime Minister Narendra Modi coined a new phrase ‘Minimum Government; Maximum Governance’ in 2014. Recently in his ‘mann ki baat’ radio address, he said good governance is the birthright of every Indian citizen like swaraj (independence) and we should have it. Nearly four and a...
Rahul In Media Outreach Programme
By Rahil Nora Chopra The NDA’s victory in the election of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman was of course the result of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strategy. But it was also helped by the failure of Congress to put up a fight of substance. Rahul Gandhi did not contact with...
BJP Should Replace A Muslim Street Name With That Of Naipaul
By Amulya Ganguli In VS Naipaul’s death, Hindutva has lost an icon. It is an irreparable loss, for there is unlikely to be any other Nobel laureate who will echo BJP MLA Sangeet Som’s view on the Taj Mahal as a “blot on our culture”. Like the UP legislator...
Lok Sabha Elections In December Is Now A Strong Possibility
By Nitya Chakraborty In the wake of the Independence Day address of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the publication of an opinion poll of a news channel that the Congress has good chance of regaining all the three states- Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in the coming assembly...
Battle To Control Mind With Media
By Aditya Aamir NDTV also stings. Till the other day it was thought stings are only Cobrapost. But NDTV anchor Nidhi Razdan wants Prime Minister Narendra Modi to hold a press conference, “like prime ministers of all democratic countries hold.” This after Modi gave an “email interview” to questions...
Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments
i. Appeal against acquittal order of Talwars admitted – The Supreme Court has admitted the appeal, filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation against the Allahabad High Court decision acquitting the Talwar couple in the double murder of their daughter Arushi and the help Hemraj. An appeal was also...
Shah Commits Blunders In His Bid To Checkmate Mamata
By Arun Srivastava The moves by Amit Shah, the so-called Chanakya of BJP, are no more invincible and his charisma is on the decline. Recent defeats of his party at the by-polls have shaken his confidence. It is perhaps this sense of loss that has prompted his frequent Kolkata...
Delhi High Court Verdict On Begging Has Wide Ramifications
By Amritananda Chakravorty In a landmark decision, the Delhi High Court decriminalised begging in Delhi, and struck down many provisions of the Bombay Prevention of Begging Act, 1959 (‘BPBA’), as extended to the National Capital Territory of Delhi in 1960. In a decision given by the Acting Chief Justice,...
Chouhan Govt Under Fire For Lapses, Nepotism
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: While Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is continuing his “Ashrivad Yatra”, which according to BJP and a section of media is getting good response, there have been incidents that questioned his government’s performance, if not his personal reputation. The first incident relates to...
Fear Is The Key And Khauf Se Azzadi
By Sushil Kutty James Hadley Chase wrote ‘Fear is the Key’ – a thriller which featured a Red Indian protagonist who, to get going on a career in crime and rake in dollars, came to the conclusion that the key to ransom is to put the fear of death...
