1. Rahul Gandhi, visits don’t help

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    By Priya V K Singh Yet another terror blast. Eleven lives lost, scores injured, hundreds traumatised, millions wondering whether we will ever again live with a sense of security in the land of our birth. The Prime Minister and the Home Minister have made statements that one does not really...
  2. 9 lakhs or 900 crores?

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    By Priya V K Singh In February 2006, Arvind Kejriwal submitted his resignation from government service. In August 2011, about five years later, the government discovered that he owed it Rs 9 lakh. This includes the interest of Rs 5 lakh on the roughly Rs 4 lakh which the government...
  3. The absent Elders

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    By Priya V K Singh On 27th August, 2011, a historic debate took place in the Parliament. Bowing to the voice of the aam aadmi, Parliament discussed and debated the 3 issues referred to it by the government  on the insistence of the people — inclusion of lower bureaucracy in...
  4. Dear MP, where were you on 27/8 ?

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    By Priya V K Singh On 27/8, when the Lok Sabha discussed and debated the three Lokpal-related issues, many political and social commentators described it a historic day in the nation’s history. Not all MPs agreed with that assessment, it seems. Why else would they have absented themselves from the Lok Sabha...
  5. Are you a patriot?

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    By Priya V K Singh Manish Tewari says Team Anna consists of “armchair fascists, overground Maoists, closet anarchists…funded by invisible donors whose links may go back a long way abroad”. I for one would not bother to argue with someone with a misplaced superciliousness permanently pasted on his face whether or...

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