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Misplaced loyalties

THE Congress boasts that it is a 125 -year-old party. But, ironically, the great old party could not find a leader of stature...

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Hot seat in Gujarat

A certain political strategist within the BJP feels that Narendra Modi should have resigned as Chief Minister and then campaigned for the Prime...

Parliament, here I come
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Parliament, here I come

DO you think PC Chidambaram will be out of Parliament 2014? No, as a shrewd politician, he has already envisioned the roadmap of...

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Dost dost na raha

ONE can buy almost everything but no one can buy reputation—once it is gone, it is gone forever. This reflects the situation of...

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Man for all seasons

JASWANT Singh, a former Defence, Finance and External Affairs Minister, is a very sensitive man. He is fighting his last political battle in...

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Honestly speaking

Writer Khushwant Singh used to go to Kasauli in Himachal Pradesh as soon as the summer set in. Though this is an old...

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CM Sharma?

THERE is a general perception in Haryana that there is no threat to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda. In Congress circles, everybody accepts...

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Veterans simmer

THE Bharatiya Janata Party resembles an arena for prime ministerial candidates. This even though, Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat, has been nominated...

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Busy as a bee

PRANAB Mukherjee’s predecessors seldom interacted with media. But since he became President, journalists receive innumerable emails with press releases and photographs from the...

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Capital clout

INDIA’S 29th state was recently formed. But let’s go back a bit in time. The local workers of Telangana and the leadership of...