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Narendra Modi declared that he hopes for a strong opposition, which would strengthen democracy. So did Jawaharlal Nehru. Speaking at the ancestral village...

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Adhir 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...

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Simplicity 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...

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Chanakya 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...

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The 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...

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FELINE 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...

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Mayawati’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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Courting the king

When Dr Farooq Abdullah ruled Jammu and Kashmir, he was known to forcefully assert thathe and he alone was the Chief Minister. In...

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Maratha Machiavelli 

On May 15, 1998, Rajesh Pilot, P A Sangma, Tariq Anwar and Sharad Pawar were sitting in the latter’s house in New Delhi...

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A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

Union Commerce G Industry Minister Kamal Nath has always been supremely ambitious. Yet, in nearly three decades of political life, his cherished goals...