The long dark tea time of the soul

NDTV is running a poll for the “Person of the year”, urging its viewers to vote for the most influential Indian for the year 2006. The list has famous achievers from all sections of the society, and there is nothing wrong with the list. Except the glitch that the list starts with the name of [...]

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We in India, the masses, the intellectuals and the politicians are yet to be outraged at the ongoing conference on holocaust denial in Teheran, Iran. There is absolutely no justification for India adopting a stoic silence at the latest attempt of revisionism, which says that the six million Jews killed between 1930 to 1945 was [...]

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Suddenly the government of India, various state governments are competing with each other in excelling in their new job profile. And what might that be? The state governments of West Bengal, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, all of them have donned the role of what the underworld used to do [...]

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