| | | the after-party Starting past midnight and continuing till dawn, the after-party has become serious business politics: bjp No leadership, no gameplan and hurtling from crisis to crisis, the BJP is in a right royal soup gujarat: amit shah case Will his junior home minister's doings be Narendra Modi's undoing? policy: food The poor stare vacantly as a food-surplus nation lets its stock spoil in the open diplomacy: india-pakistan With WikiLeaks nailing Pakistan's lies, talks aren't a priority for India afghanistan A flood on WikiLeaks reveals Pakistan's worst-kept secret: the ISI-Taliban affair business: csr The government considers giving corporates more than a nudge towards social initiatives Business: Real Estate Residential prices in NCR, Mumbai soar film: Peepli [Live] At Peepli's ground zero, hope floats. Will the film better the lives of the villagers? Food: vegans Veganism is the new food mantra for the hip and happening karnataka: government Karnataka's babus, netas are talking shop online society: prodigy A 14-year-old home-schooled Delhi boy makes it to IIT. How different can life get? healthcare: report India does dismally in a report on end-of-life care. What's to be done? arts: prithvi Science and art stitch an intricate pattern of beauty at Prithvi poll Sutra The metamorphosis from actor to kisan came courtesy Mayawati and not Mulayam Singh Yadav. review C.G. Somiah's memoirs, in both form and content, reflect his famed qualities: uprightness and modesty R. Gopalakrishnan on The Honest Always Stand Alone By C.G. Somiah rview Easily mistaken for the juvenile effusion of a distinctly un-precocious schoolchild. Kalpish Ratna on Tiger Hills: A Novel By Sarita Mandanna |
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| | From The Blogs The other side: What the cops have to deal with Sundeep Dougal |
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| | From The Blogs Mohammed Rafi (December 24, 1924 – July 31, 1980): 30th death anniversary Sundeep Dougal From The Blogs Latest Pew survey: India biggest threat. Majority wants improved relations. Kashmir biggest issue. Only 35% think negatively of LeT... Sundeep Dougal |
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| | The US on Pak The US says there is "nothing new" in the Wikileaks revelations. So if the US knew all this, it is interesting to see how the department of state spins its responses when questioned whether this had been shared with India |  View From Israel In Roman Polanski's movie, based on Ira Levin's book, a nice young woman gives birth to a nice baby, which turns out to be the son of Satan. The attractive leftist vision of the one-state solution may grow up into a rightist monster. Uri Avnery | |
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|  View From UK David Cameron has made all the right noises in India. Despite causing a diplomatic row with Pakistan and David Miliband calling him "loudmouth", Cameron has stuck to his comments.... Harsh V. Pant | | State Snippets Ever heard of a ruling party planning to organise state-wide agitations against an opposition leader? And what is it about the current leading from the South not being able to compete in Bollywood? Pushpa Iyengar | |
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| | From The Blogs Does the majority want 'Azadi'? Is it viable? Does the conflict have a direct link with Afghanistan? Sundeep Dougal |
| | Sohrabuddin Fake Encounter Case 'Shri Amit Shah had accepted... that Sohrabuddin was killed because Sohrabuddin himself had foreclosed the alternative of keeping himself alive and there are political compulsions which an ordinary person like him would not understand' |  UK PM Visits India The visiting PM was frank about his main focus on economics, but he had done his homework well: his plainspeaking in warning Pakistan on "export of terror" perhaps helping his hosts get over the Miliband-Brown mindset David Cameron | | View From The USA The bottom line in the illegal immigration debate currently raging in the USA will interest many in India: whether or not to deport those unlawfully resident within a country. Joseph Chamie | |
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| | From The Blogs "Instead of allowing her reporting to shape her story, she has allowed her preconceived notions to shape every last drop of her analysis" Buzz From The Blogs Mani Shankar Aiyar's ire at the CWG has never been a state-secret. Why is he suddenly publicly speaking out once again? Buzz | | From The Wires "Just imagine if we would have spent the Rs. 35,000 crore in providing training to the children, we would have won medals in every international sporting event." | | Implications There are lessons for intelligence and security agencies of all countries of the world, including India. It shows how insecure the so-called secure data-bases are and how one could break into them. B. Raman | |
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| | From The Blogs 'In July 2008, the CIA's deputy director confronted Pakistani officials with evidence that the ISI helped plan the deadly suicide bombing of India's Embassy in Kabul' Sundeep Dougal |
|  Wikileaks The ISI did have some fears when Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and Narasimha Rao were Prime Ministers, but because of a succession of soft Prime Ministers we have had, there seems to be no pressure on it B. Raman | | PAKISTAN Operation Orakzai is yet another instance of Pakistan army declaring victory over 'terrorism' which is easily rebuffed by various local and official sources Tushar Ranjan Mohanty | |
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