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  1. How Jagan’s stock nosedived at 10 Janpath

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    / June 3, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The last time I met Y S Jaganmohan Reddy was the day before he was arrested by the CBI. I remember asking him if anyone from the Congress in Delhi was in touch with him. He replied in the negative. My source had however told me some functionaries in the...

  2. Spare us please. It isn’t funny

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    / May 11, 2012 / 1 Comment
    While in college, when I started freelancing in the late 80s, I used to write stories for `Children’s World’. A monthly magazine published by the Children’s Book Trust. An institution established in 1957 by the late Shankar Pillai, known as the patriarch of political cartooning in India. It was therefore...

  3. Kaun (nahi) banega Rashtrapati

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    / April 27, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The season when a mention in the newspapers or TV channels sends Presidential hopefuls and their families into a frenzy and a rush to stitch new bandhgalas or order new sarees is upon us. Sadly, no surprise names yet. APJ Abdul Kalam reportedly is open to a second term in...

  4. Play on Mayawati not allowed

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    / January 25, 2012 / 2 Comments
    Uttar Pradesh elections do not cease to surprise. Now the District Magistrate of Lucknow, Anil Sagar has disallowed permission to stage a play `My sandals’ since according to him, it has references to the chief minister, Mayawati and her party’s symbol, the elephant. This he says, is a violation of...

  5. Haathi mere saathi !

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    / January 16, 2012 / 2 Comments
    You can cover up all the elephant statues in Uttar Pradesh but can the Election Commission curb this man’s sartorial sense? This is the tie that adorned the neck of Mayawati’s trusted lieutenant Satish Chandra Mishra on Sunday. This photograph captured by journalist Anant Zanane of NDTV in Lucknow shows...

  6. An elephantine cover-up operation

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    / January 7, 2012 / 2 Comments
    By T S Sudhir   So Uttar Pradesh is all set to see Mayawati get Anarkalified, with Chief Election Commissioner S Y Qureshi playing Jahanpanah Akbar. Operation cover-up is all set to begin. The EC wants all Mayawatis and her elephants to go under a veil in UP till the last...

  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...

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