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MastermindPerspectivePoliticsNehru-also-wanted-strong-opposition-but-there-was-none
Narendra Modi declared that he hopes for a strong opposition, which would strengthen democracy. So did Jawaharlal Nehru. Speaking at the ancestral village...
MastermindAdhir Chowdhury : A local phenomenon on a national stage
Adhir Chowdhury is the name of a phenomenon. Two mighty Chief Ministers, Buddhadev Bhattacharya of the Left Front and Mamata Banerjee of Trinamool...
MastermindSimplicity defines her
MEET Sumitra Mahajan, 71, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Indore in Madhya Pradesh and the second woman Speaker of the world’s...
MastermindChanakya in Modi’s team
WITH Prime Minister NarendraModi assuming office after a blitzkrieg electoral offensive that saw the Congress and its allies vanquished as never before, the...
MastermindJASWANT? PM? HUH?
March 2009. Post-elections, there is a hung Parliament and parties and politicians are on tenterhooks. Half-a-dozen Prime Ministers-in-waiting queue outside Rashtrapati Bhavan but...
MastermindA keeper of secrets
Guess this personality by the clues given below. He’s the longest serving Member of Parliament’s Upper House but has no base, no constituency...
MastermindNanhe Praful isnow mile-high
BIDIS is the last thing one would associate with the savvy and sophisticated Union Minister for Civil Aviation. But bidi king of Vidarbha...
MastermindThe GOOD, BAD and UGLY
unpredictableBefore 2001, Narendra Modi was just another politician, hanging out in Delhi and awaiting his big break. That finally came in 2001, when...
MastermindFELINE DEXTERITY
SO FAR it was deuce.But recent developments indicate the game is now poised at political match point. In Delhi it’s Congress versus Congress...
MastermindMayawati’s Trishul
As a boy from a conservative Allahabad Brahmin family, growing up in Lucknow where father Triveni Sahai Mishra was a judge (later CJ...
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