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Mastermind
MastermindWith malice from none
Prime Ministerial contender Paswan has no enemies in Delhi Union Fertilizer, Chemical and Steel Minister Ram Vilas Paswan, who became an MLA in...
MastermindPC or politically correct?
Is the country set to get its second PM from the south? Palaniappan Chidambaram has been forging ahead with such steam since taking...
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...
MastermindCourting 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...
MastermindMaratha 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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