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Cover StoryLet’s lure voters – again
In this century, national elections across the globe are rigged on social media. Online social networks can make or mar any election, be...
CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 7 : A Mother’s Son & Son of God
FORTY-FIVE minutes after one of the largest branches of the State Bank of India at New Delhi’s Parliament Street opened on May 24,...
Cover StoryDemocracy
UNFORTUNATELY, or fortunately, Agenda 2019 will comprise the same issues as Agenda 2014. Despite a political wave a few years ago, and flamboyant...
CorruptionFROM RAJ TO RAFALE 6 : LICENCE TO LOOT
IT is often, but wrongly, assumed that India’s first Prime Minister, Jawahar Lal Nehru, was against the private sector. This wasn’t true, at...
CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 5 : The Mundhra case
IT started with a follow-up question that politicians ask after a newspaper or news channel report. On September 4, 1957, a Lok Sabha...
Gfiles AwardsDaring Challengers
THERE was a consensus among central ministers with previous experiences in civil services, and former and serving civil servants that the mainstream media...
CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 4 : Mahatma and Millionaires
Today, a whiff of crony capitalism, i.e. a politician helping a businessman or vice versa, results in a scandal. But in the pre-Independence...
ExposeAn intriguing deal
For decades, Indian governments, in league with private aviation players, destroyed the operational and financial foundations of the state-owned Air India. The public...
CorruptionFrom Raj to Rafale 3 : Opium of India Inc
KARL Marx said that religion was the opium of the masses. What most people don’t know is that he delved into the moral...
GovernanceMutual Benefit Club
THIS is the story about the six-degrees-of-separation principle. In personal lives, one can link with anyone anywhere in the globe through six links—A...
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