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Lokpal Freezes in Delhi Cold
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There is a fear now that the Lokpal Bill may
end up like the Women’s Reservation Bill,
which every political party claims to support
and yet it has not been cleared by Parliament
for two decades.
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Atul Cowshish
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Reserving the past
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There is more than one way of interpreting
the move to reserve half the seats
on the proposed Lokpal for backward
castes and the debate on whether a similar
quota should be created for minorities.
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Santosh Desai
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The Lokpal may go the Bofors way
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Alas, the VP Singh government that followed
was soon totally engrossed in agitations
over caste-based reservations and
the Babri Masjid. Investigations into Bofors
were neglected or diluted.
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Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
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The Problem with Proverbs
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When cricketer-turned-philanthropist-
turned-politician Imran Khan
and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
(PTI) burst on the scene with a massive jalsa
in Lahore in October 2011, political pundits
were
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Raihana A Hasan
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The Indian voter and the New Year spirit
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This time around Mulayam Singh and his
son Akhilesh Yadav have pulled out all the
plugs to lure the Muslim voter, keeping the
Yadav base intact.
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Seema Mustafa
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Communal riots 2011
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16th. Baroda (Gujarat): Mischievous elements attacked
and burned a gate erected for Eid as well as
several vehicles. A Kahar from the fi sher community
was arrested. Baroda is already an extremely
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Asghar Ali Engineer
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Recalling the India-Pakistan war of 1971
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The high-water mark of my journalistic
career was reporting the Indo-Pak
War of 1971 for The New York Times.
I had the rare opportunity of meeting some
of the leading characters of this dramatic
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Khushwant Singh
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The Lone Option
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The difference between the dynamics
of people’s politics from the dynamics
of electoral politics was made
clear by the turn taken in the Indian parliament
by the Bill to establish the institution
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Kuldip Nayar
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On the Record
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Here is the nuanced sub-plot, a drama within
the drama. Why have Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and
Rahul been silent while Mamata Banerjee sabotaged
the PM’s initiatives? Because, wittingly or
not, she did Ra
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M J Akbar
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Voices for equality
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As each year closes, I enjoy recalling
for this column my choice of best
fi lms of the year. By many accounts,
2011 was commercially one of the most successful
years for the Hindi fi lm industry i
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Harsh Mander
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A challenge and an opportunity in the Middle East
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If the Islamists are to sustain the gains
they have made across the region, they
must go beyond rhetoric
Patrick Buchanan is one of those few
writers I never like to miss. Having worked
as a seni
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Aijaz Zaka Syed
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Is Dhoni an overrated test captain?
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Albert Einstein once said that doing the
same thing over and over and expecting
a different result is insane. Indian
batsmen did exactly that, chasing balls pitched
way outside the off-stump, jump
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Neelakant Patri
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