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  1. I am a Brahmin but he is not a Reddy

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    / April 18, 2012 / 2 Comments
    “I am a Brahmin and I am the Congress general secretary,” said Rahul Gandhi during a review meeting of the abysmal results in the Uttar Pradesh elections, after the Brahmin lobby reportedly tried to pin the blame the debacle on the party’s aggressive wooing of the minorities and other castes....

  2. Akhilesh Yadav takes oath

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    / March 16, 2012 / Leave a comment
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  3. India’s VRS season

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    / March 11, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The cacophony on Twitter and Facebook, and the media in general, would suggest India has nothing better to do than asking people to retire. The nation went into a collective orgasm as Rahul created a Dra-void in the Indian Test eleven. Strange are the ways of the fickle-minded Indian populace....

  4. Lessons from Lucknow for Hyderabad

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    / March 7, 2012 / Leave a comment
    In 2009, I was at an election meeting in Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency, waiting for Rahul Gandhi to arrive when I found Y S Rajasekhara Reddy’s Man Friday grumbling. Let us call him Mr X here. Mr X started talking about how meetings like these were a waste of YSR’s...

  6. Rahul tries luck now with Kerala card

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    / February 6, 2012 / 1 Comment
    This is an anecdote that every E K Nayanar admirer is fond of relating. That when Mulayam Singh Yadav was chief minister of Uttar Pradesh and the late Nayanar was in power in Kerala, the former wrote a letter to EK, about some issue. The letter was written in Hindi,...

  7. Is Sibal the new Diggy?

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    / December 15, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By T S Sudhir First a disclaimer. I like Kapil Sibal. I think he is the best minister in Manmohan Singh’s cabinet. I think he is a visionary. He was always my favourite man in black robes. I also admire Sonia Gandhi. Also Rahul. Also Priyanka’s children. Even Robert Vadra....

  8. Can Rahul do what Rajiv has done ?

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    / October 7, 2011 / 3 Comments
    By G Mohan   In the ’40s and ’50s, Rajiv and Rahul were not so common names, as they are today. When we hear the names Rajiv and Rahul, the first surname that occurs to many of us is the Gandhi family. And there is the Bajaj family too. Many...

  9. Rahul Gandhi, visits don’t help

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    / September 7, 2011 / 2 Comments
    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...

  10. “Mummy ko waapas aane do, sab ko dekh loonga”

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    / September 6, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By Venkat Parthasarathy   This evening Sonia Gandhi returned to Delhi after her surgery, which was successful. Receiving her at the airport were son Rahul Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra. We have exclusive transcript of the chat Mummy Sonia had with Beta Rahul. Rahul Beta:  How are you Mummy? Welcome...