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  1. Race for President to change PM?

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    / June 14, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Sometime in May, when this important ally of the Congress in the UPA was called by Sonia Gandhi for discussions on the Presidential election, he decided to be candid. “Ma’m, we will support whoever you decide to nominate for the President. But I have a request to make. Please change...

  2. The buck stops nowhere in the Defence ministry

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    / March 27, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Arackaparambil Kurien Antony came to the Rajya Sabha well prepared, his sleeves rolled up, like always. Those are heavy sleeves for he wears his honesty on them. A reputation built in Kerala’s murky political backwaters where comparisions with the old fox, the late Karunakaran always helped Antony shine bright. He...

  3. A new low in governance

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    / March 16, 2012 / 1 Comment
    Just when I thought that the government of Manmohan Singh had reached its nadir by deciding to seek a review of the Supreme Court ruling which cancelled 2G licenses, the government has once again demonstrated that it can plumb to newer depths in perversity. This time it is the Trinamool...

  4. `The Burning Train’ starring Mamata Banerjee

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    / March 15, 2012 / 5 Comments
    The Sun rises in the East. Dinesh Trivedi discovered yesterday that `his sun’ also set in the East. Over one hundred years after the capital of India shifted from Kolkata (then Calcutta) to Delhi, Mamata Banerjee’s Indianised version of the East India Company is threatening to gain control once again....

  5. Swamy David doesn’t slay Chidu Goliath

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    / February 5, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Remember, how before the Indian team left for Australia, all of India was upbeat about their cricketing Gods. How the “strongest ever” Team India had the best chance to conquer “the final frontier”.   4-0 is now history as the Gods were found to have feet of clay that just did not...

  6. The ‘vindication’ of the PM

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    / February 1, 2012 / 3 Comments
    “Unfortunately, those who were expected to give proper advice to the PM and place full facts and the legal position before him failed to do so. ” So observed the Honourable Supreme Court, in a landmark judgement yesterday. The judgement was given pertaining to a case filed by Dr. Subramaniam Swamy questioning the delay in...

  7. Mayawatiji, aap utejit mat hoyiye

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    / October 23, 2011 / 1 Comment
     By T S Sudhir If Mayawati is to be believed, Sonia Gandhi may soon say “Aap baith jayiye” to Meira Kumar, while ushering her to the Prime Minister’s chair. This, the UP chief minister predicts, will be the Congress’s big ticket move ahead of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh...

  8. Man, maun-ji does not Singh

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    / July 2, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S Sudhir So Dr Manmohan Singh has shared never-told-before secrets. Six hours of sleep in a 24-hour cycle. No weekly off. No vacation either. Makes one wonder if all work and no play has made Jack an MMS. Another politician who used to boast about working for 18...

  9. An uncertain MMS

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    / July 1, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Narasimha Reddy   The Prime Minister, in his interview with five select editors, said the government “takes  decisions in a world of uncertainty”. He was responding to CAG reports on petroleum and telecom allocations.   It baffles me that we have a huge planning set up, with a team...

  10. MMS on TINA

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    / June 7, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By T S Sudhir“There was no alternative to crackdown at Ramlila grounds.” : Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India   By ducking under TINA, Dr Singh let himself down in the eyes of millions of his admirers. And suddenly the epithets like `weak’, `lameduck’, `powerless’ that are thrown at him, are...

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