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Bric a BracCongressmen’s lot
SCRIBES can extract an apology from Congress president Sonia Gandhi if the Special Protection Group (SPG) men guarding her get a mite too...
Bric a BracSaffron lovefor Suu Kyi
AUNG San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader of Myanmar (pronounced ‘Myamma’) or Brahmadesh – as the RSS calls it – was never a...
Bric a BracHeadless chicken & absenteeism
THERE is an interesting sideline to the drama of the Indo-US nuclear deal. Sources say our envoy to the US, Ronen Sen, will...
Bric a BracTina Dixit sitting pretty high command quandary
LETus hark back to the time when that formidable gang of three – HKL Bhagat, Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar – was dictating...
Bric a BracDivided we stand: UP loyalty split
The change of power in UP has split the state bureaucracy vertically. The officers who ruled the state from a certain floor of...
Bric a BracProcrastinating Patil’s a pain!
Minister-bureaucrat collision course Union Home Minister Shivraj Patil’s ouster in the run-up to the Presidential election is seemingly a body blow for bureaucrats...
Bric a BracDev’s Industrious Man Friday
Central Public Works Department (CPWD) employees are duty-bound to look after MPs’ flats in Delhi. And, some of them – being ambitious as...
Bric a BracSon as Badal’s nemesis
Sukhbir Singh Badal is to Prakash Singh Badal what Om Prakash Chautala was to Chaudhry Devi Lal in state politics. The elder Badal...
Bric a BracSmudgy business for Coal Minister Dasari
The Minister of State for Coal, Dasari Narayan Rao, is a man from the world of the arts – being a former actor,...
Bric a BracKissa Kalam ki kursi ka
Though the term of President APJ Abdul Kalam will expire in July, lobbying is already on for the next incumbent. And no prizes...
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