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| A matter of new scruples |
| Naveen Patnaik’s decision to drop the BJP is hardly simple |
| On April 23, NDTV aired an interview with Naveen Patnaik in which the chief minister of Orissa was categorical that he had broken with the Bharatiya Janata Party because of its involvement in, and endorsement of, anti-Christian violence in Kandhamal.... |
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| Glory in the hills |
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Sir — I have begun to pity Jaswant Singh and the Bharatiya Janata Party, although I held both in hi ... |
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| Yet to change |
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Sir — As Mukul Kesavan shows, it would be simplistic to consider the current general elections as ... |
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| WRONG POWERS |
| Democracy and high-handedness do not go well together. And if elections are to be an affirmation of the spirit of democracy, ...|
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| Q NOT AN ISSUE |
| A well-known dictum of Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence is that an individual is innocent till proven guilty. Even L.K. Advani knows...|
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| Freedom Has A Price |
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“You have more than one party, right? And you are now going to vote for one of them?’’ These questions crop up with amazing r... | Read.. |
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| Games Barney played with George |
| In the last couple of years of his presidency, George W. Bush usually went around with a defiant smirk on his face. By this time, this expression had become his armour against... |
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| Birds, goats and angry rabbits |
| My grandmother kept a cuckoo as a pet. Chased by a band of belligerent crows, the cuckoo had flopped down on our verandah one summer morning. My grandmother, ever the bird-lov... |
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| The hour of the wolf |
| There’s a time of night in the city when the animals rule. Those who work late on the streets and also live there have finally gone to sleep. The rickshaw-pullers, istiriwalla... |
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Every street lamp that I pass/ Beats like a fatalistic drum,/ And through the spaces of the dark,/ Midnight shakes the memory/ As a madman shakes a dead geranium. — T.S. ELIOT
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