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ByAbhilash KhandekarFebruary 2, 2019AT the time when I was finishing my reading of the book under review, for the second time in a fortnight, a top...
ByAbhilash KhandekarSeptember 8, 2015MAHESH Neelkanth Buch, a diminutive Gujarati bureaucrat from the Madhya Pradesh cadre, stood much taller than even the tallest of the Indian Administrative...
ByAbhilash KhandekarJuly 8, 2015MEET Sumitra Mahajan, 71, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Indore in Madhya Pradesh and the second woman Speaker of the world’s...
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