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January 21,2015 00:15:41 AM
By setting up Kiran Bedi vs Arvind Kejriwal, BJP once again tries to co-opt rival’s agenda.
November 24,2002 00:00:00 AM
A Dalit woman, Mayawati, is the chief minister of India’s largest province. A backward caste Yadav woman, Rabri Devi, is the CM of Biha...
November 15,2002 00:00:00 AM
Winston Churchill once said: Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot, others look upon it as a cow they ca...
October 02,2002 00:00:00 AM
The Russian revolutionary, V.I. Lenin, used to believe ‘revolution was the festival of the masses’. Lenin’s contemporary, Mah...
September 29,2002 00:00:00 AM
Sending a loud and clear signal to the Opposition over the heads of lakhs of people, the BJP and the BSP today used both B R Ambedkar and th...
September 20,2002 00:00:00 AM
It might sound outrageous to some and ridiculous to others but there is a striking similarity in the political strategies followed by lamedu...
June 02,2002 00:00:00 AM
In the opening essay, Jaffrelot focuses on the central dilemma afflicting Pakistan: an identity crisis. Picking his cue from an editorial in...
April 14,2002 00:00:00 AM
IT is what they call the boondocks. There is nothing — absolutely nothing — striking about this place, right in the middle of nowh...
January 21,2001 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, JANUARY 20: Fifteen Indian CRPF personnel killed as the Lashkar-e-Toiba storms successfully Srinagar airport,'' says the headli...
January 11,2001 00:00:00 AM
Liberals have always been sceptical of Mahatma Gandhi. In fact, they have been suspicious of what they termed were his "muddle-headed...
December 14,2000 00:00:00 AM
In Richard Attenborough's Gandhi, there is a powerful sequence at the very end. A Hindu communalist has a change of heart when he discover...
November 22,2000 00:00:00 AM
In his typical hyperbolic style, the RJD president Laloo Prasad Yadav once exclaimed: "the state of Jharkhand will be created only ov...
November 16,2000 00:00:00 AM
When I first went to the United States in 1988 as a graduate student at the University of California I was struck by the enormous politica...
October 19,2000 00:00:00 AM
Imagine a love spat in a family, where the husband is 75 and the wife 49. All this while, the patriarch has been in charge. All of a sudde...
October 03,2000 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 2: In a brutally frank speech, former National Security Adviser to the US President, Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, on ...
September 25,2000 00:00:00 AM
Most Americans aptly fit Thomas Hobbes' description of humans: for them reason is the ``spy and scout'' of passion. And in love and partne...
July 27,2000 00:00:00 AM
The entire theatrics over Bal Thackeray's arrest the initial open defiance of the law, the gall with which he threatened an agitation on t...
