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With elections in Bihar around the corner, the national political scene has come to life. The stakes for this edition of the Bihar elections are unusually high, higher than they have ...

Lalu's interview in HT today makes one feel that India is perhaps a lost idea whose time is up. There is probably truth in the fact that India is the only nation ...

Our constitution was written with the highest possible ideals. It provides for equality of citizens before law. It guarantees them liberty, justice and dignity. In theory, these are wondrous words whose magical ...

In school when we used to take the India pledge and proudly say – “India is my country and all Indians are my brothers and sisters. I love my country and ...

Is the anger of the Indian middle class directly proportional to the hypocrisy of the intelligentsia? And every morning as I log on to my micro-blogging site, I see a lot ...

“Portrayal of negativity is fine. But optimism is the oxygen we require so much.”-a BJP sympathizer told me yesterday. The direct sources of communication which the Prime Minister employs to connect ...

The mighty Maratha empire was now already tottering. Still smarting from the vicious defeat at the hands of the Afghans at Panipat, the Marathas had retreated to become some sort of ...

Two major things happened on the 25th of June. One, India marked 40 years of the emergency imposed by the Indira Gandhi government. And two, India launched the Smart City project. ...

The Vyapam Scam is one of the biggest scams plaguing Madhya Pradesh for decades. It involved a major racket whereby seats in colleges were sold for cash and several exams were ...

Police system has been epitomized as a rotten organization where the pleas of hapless citizens remain unheeded. Police system has been typified as a ravening mafia-like organization who beat and kill ...

Does anyone remember Shenaz Treasurywala?   Think…think harder…Okay stop trying. Let me sum her up for you. She was one of those attractive faces in Bollywood who came, who saw and ...

Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal announced his presidential bid last week. As he strongly distanced himself from the land of his forefathers, Indians took to Twitter with the hash tag # BobbyJindalIsSoWhite. ...