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  1. Why Indians won’t accept Rahul as their own Obama?

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    / January 26, 2013 /
      I think he (Rahul) is one of the most talented, able and insightful of the younger generation of politicians worldwide, but how he ends up in your politics again, that’s for you, for him and for his party to decide. But I think he has got first class mind...

  2. The Owaisis arrest – spreading hate among Muslims?

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    / January 25, 2013 / 3 Comments
    Written by the Committee for Release of Political Prisoners The last fortnight or so have witnessed high political drama in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh that has been rife with the speculations of the formation of a Telengana State. Meanwhile there is also news of heavy lobbying from the...

  3. Kiran’s hand to mouth politics

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    / January 17, 2013 /
    Kiran Kumar Reddy has hit upon the formula to win elections. Or so he thinks. Convinced that the way to a man or woman’s vote in Andhra Pradesh is through his stomach, the chief minister has embarked on selling rice at one rupee a kg at PDS outlets. The pilot...

  4. Akbar’s right to defence

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    / January 17, 2013 / 6 Comments
    I am a tad surprised at the manner in which certain sections of the Bar questioned the propriety of Senior Advocate and former Advocate General DV Sitha Ram Murthy appearing for Akbaruddin Owaisi in the recent writ petition. It is strange that a set of lawyers raised the question in...

  5. India is a wounded tiger, it has to strike back

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    / January 15, 2013 /
    “If his (Hemraj’s) head could not be brought back (from Pakistan), we should get at least 10 heads from their side,” was how Sushma Swaraj reacted to Pakistan’s barbarism across the LoC. Call it Swaraj’s Sunny Deol moment but you cannot deny that it echoes what most Indians are feeling...

  6. Why Narendra Modi could be a Jyoti Basu

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    / January 13, 2013 / 2 Comments
    The fifth straight win for the BJP in the Gujarat elections, and Modi’s third, has already been trumpeted by the right as the beginning of their march to Delhi. But will it be a Triumphal March, winning state after state in 2013, or a Mao-like Long March? Or, as my...

  7. Akbar Owaisi belongs in the slammer

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    / January 11, 2013 / 3 Comments
    I am sure most of us have seen the inflammatory speech by Akbaruddin Owaisi, the MLA from Chandrayangutta in Hyderabad, as I have. One just needs to type ‘Akbar’ into the dialogue box and YouTube does the rest, throwing up the links to the infamous speech in a matter of...

  8. A new age of unreason

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    / January 11, 2013 /
    On a television talk show recently in which I was a participant, the question posed was “Have opposition politicians misunderstood the nature of lobbying?” The moderator went straight for the jugular, asking the BJP spokesman to defend the assertion of a senior leader of his party, who had asserted in...

  9. Decriminalising Parliament

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    / January 11, 2013 /
    With the public gaze resting so determinedly on politicians involved in crimes against women, some political parties have announced that they will not henceforth field such candidates. Some well meaning social activists have filed PILs in the Supreme Court, seeking suspension of MPS and MLAs with cases of crimes against...

  10. Hell hath no fury like a Yeddy scorned

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    / November 30, 2012 /
    The BJP would be amused that at just about the same time that one of its stalwarts B S Yeddyurappa is bidding adieu to the party, another of its prodigal sons Kalyan Singh is knocking at its door in Lucknow. But while Kalyan is a spent force in the cesspool...

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