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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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Telengana’s reluctant martyr

KCR might be astute and an opportunist, but he is no Potti Sriramulu KCR. K Chandrasekhar Rao. A quiet man for whom the...

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Not in the running…for BJP chief

In 1980, when the former Jan Sangh was in the process of breaking away from the Janata Party and being rechristened the BJP...

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The Lingayats’ pride and joy

Having built the Bharatiya Janata Party singlehandedly in Karnataka and become the saffron brigade’s first Chief Minister in the South, Bookanakere Siddalingappa Yeddyurappa...

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Riding high in Bengaluru

Karnataka’s BJP Chief Ministership feels assured of power in the next two elections On a well-remembered January 26 morning, BS Yediruppa had hoisted...

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The kalank on Karat

The Vijayan episode spells ruin for both the CPI(M) and its General Secretary He was a perennial symbol of defiance, even when the...

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The indispensable Congressman

The gentle, diligent Bengali has proved himself a great survivor as well as an invaluable member of party and government Union Finance Minister...