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  1. We are like that only, Ms Kiran Bedi

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    / June 15, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Let me begin with apologising to Kiran Bedi. We the corrupt people of Andhra Pradesh have elected 17 MLAs and one MP belonging to two parties that you perhaps see as “corrupt”. A majority of them to the YSR Congress, whose leader Jaganmohan Reddy is in judicial custody in a...

  2. Operation successful, Patient dead

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    / December 30, 2011 / 3 Comments
    When Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh stepped out of the Rajya Sabha at 12:02 am on Friday, he noticed something red on his hands. Surprised initially, he discovered it was actually blood. He turned to Pranab Mukherjee, walking alongside and saw his hands were red too. A figure in white...

  3. Anna in Mumbai, First day first show

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    / December 28, 2011 / 3 Comments
    The crowds aren’t huge and most of the people at MMRDA ground in Mumbai seem to be the regular people who travel by train and bus. On Day 1, the speeches were disappointing and just plain rant and slogans against corruption. Depth – a few inches. The Lok Sabha debate that...

  4. Did India win in Parliament?

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    / December 28, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S Sudhir   “Bhala uski kameez meri kameez se safed kaise”. All through the eleven-hour debate in the Lok Sabha on the Lokpal Bill on Tuesday, MP after MP held forth on the black soot of corruption but in reality seemed more interested in colour correcting the whiteness on Anna’s kurta. Typically,...

  5. Who loses if India wins

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    / December 27, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By Dr Jayaprakash Narayan Anna’s leadership has galvanized the middle classes and youth across the country, and sensitized the political parties and government to the urgent need for resolute action. The Lokpal, Lokayuktas Bill presented to Parliament is a vast improvement on the past Bills, and is directly a product...

  6. Mera Naam Lalu

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    / December 22, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By T S Sudhir So Lalu Yadav is India’s Mohammed Asif who bowled the no-ball just the way the Congress wanted him to. Forget line and length. When Team UPA is trying to desperately save face, Lalu, the political freelancer has come to its aid. As always. Protesting against the...

  7. Mumbaicha raja kaun? Saying it with caps!

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    / August 31, 2011 / 1 Comment
    Last year, long before Anna and friends led the Gandhi Topi revival, the Ganesh Mandalis of Mumbai had already proved that the traditional Maharashtrian cap can be as powerful as a t-shirt. They geo-tagged their caps with their Mandali names and showed it off proudly. Which galli or mohalla you...

  8. Mind your language

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    / August 29, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By T S Sudhir   “Picture abhi baaki hai mere dost”. That’s what Parliamentarians cutting across party lines seem to be telling civil society. And the `villains’ to these 750-odd self-proclaimed heroes and heroines are actor Om Puri and former police officer Kiran Bedi. Clearly here, no one is willing...

  9. Anna Speak on Day 12

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    / August 27, 2011 /
    On a day when Dr Naresh Trehan expressed concern over Anna Hazare’s health, after 12 days of fasting, the Gandhian made some significant points in his speech at Ramlila Maidan.   On 26th January 1950, the day we became a Republic, people became masters of the nation. Masters sent representatives...

  10. Gandhi writes to Gandhi

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    / August 22, 2011 / 4 Comments
    Dear Momma, I miss you very much. I hope you are doing well. Now don’t frown on reading this mail; I know I have not written since I got back to India but then I am up all night trying to read this JanLok pal Bill and our own Lokpal...

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