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Modi case: The danger in Justice Suresh's double hearsay
Judge Hosbet Suresh surely knows that the value of his statement on what Haren Pandya told him about what the former minister heard from someone else is zero?
Sena-BJP vs Cong-NCP: Tweedledum vs Tweedledee
The Congress-NCP combine attacks the Sena-BJP in Mumbai on poor civic governance. It's the kettle calling the pot black.
After Porngate: A brief history of parliamentary supremacy
After Karnataka's Porngate, it's absolutely clear that the Supremacy of Parliament and Legislature is complete. But not in the way we think
Fake cash, fake liquor being used to woo Mumbai, Thane voters
Elections are no longer about notes, votes and liquor. Thanks to inflation, candidates are cutting back. It is now about fake notes and adulterated liquor.
How TV caught Porngate: It was a self-inflicted wound
The Karnataka ministers whose viewing of porn clips were caught on camera, brought doom on themselves by acting too furtively.
Indian media is more complacent than Pakistan's
The Indian media has become blase about free speech. India badly needs more journalists like Pak's Najam Sethi.
Why Pakistan can't access Kasab
Starting tomorrow a team of eight officials from Pakistan will record statements on the Mumbai blasts. They will however not have access to Ajmal Kasab. The reason could be his mental condition.
Pawar divides his turf: State for nephew, Centre for daughter
Maharashtra strongman Sharad Pawar has indicated how his nephew and daughter must carve up his legacy.
Jagan's 'offer' to Cong shows CBI is under political control
The reported feeler sent by Jaganmohan Reddy to avoid arrest shows how the CBI is a tool in the hands of the ruling party.
Was that thing in the Lok Sabha really a debate? Naah...
Are ‘civility’ and ‘decorum’ the two words that readily spring to mind about MPs’ behaviour when Kapil Sibal was defending the government’s Lokpal bill?
Just who do our MPs think they are? God's gift to India?
Why do our MPs behave as though they are our lords and masters?
Censorship is easy — just get Kapil Sibal to say something "stupid"
Mr Sibal might not be protecting the morals of the nation, but he's certainly managing to distract the nation from anything else going on.
Lessons Occupy Wall Street can learn from Dr. Zhivago
A lot of the "occupy wall street" movement reminds me of Dr. Zhivago - and raises the pertinent question, "when the sickle meets Wall Street, will we see innocents getting slaughtered again?"
The North- East is in danger of becoming the next Maoist hub
The signals coming from Arunachal Pradesh and Assam should leave the policy-makers in Delhi worried. The Red rebels are trying to cash in on local grievances to build base.
When Gadkari the person, overshadowed Gadkari the politician
It was a different Nitin Gadkari on view in Goa — funny, relaxed and charming, he revealed his softer side.
Arvind Kejriwal: 'Anna is not India. India is not Anna'
A whooping, hollering audience cheered both sides, as Arvind Kejriwal and his fellow RTI activist Shekhar Singh went back-and-forth on the virtues and follies of the Hazare movement.
Manufacturing consent: a major media sport in US and India
The media in the US and India have become experts at demonising anybody that their governments do not like.
Corruption is our birth-right; Anna, please excuse us
From autorickshaw drivers to RTO inspectors to octroi post employees, everyone regards corruption as his birth-right. Will Anna's Lokpal help us here?
Dam safety in Sikkim - we were lucky this time
A quake-hit dam can be a catastrophe of untold proportions. There have been seven draft bills so far but no Dams Safety Act in India. Are we serious?
For Team Anna: Five lessons from California about direct democracy
Recall and Reject sounds kick-ass. Direct democracy - who could argue with that? But people power doesn't always work the way we imagine it to. Team Anna should just ask the people of California.
Why capital punishment is the least effective solution
Criminal law is least effective when it's motivated by anger against its defendants. Perhaps that's why the Indian Penal Code, argues that capital punishment should only be handed out in the rarest of rare cases.
Anna's backroom boys did a great job, but the frontroom?
Anna's backroom image builders choreographed a great presence for Anna. But did his frontroom boys and girl spoil the show?
Anna's India: Why a sob story works better than logic
Should a hunger-strike with its emotional appeal be given much more attention than logic? But this is what happens in India time and again: a sob story gets results, not sober thinking.
A deluded Team Anna is feeding a dangerous intolerance
The increasingly strident self-righteous tone of Team Anna and its wholesale intolerance of those who challenge its position on the Lokpal bill debate are symptoms of an out-of-control movement.
The Cong plan to neutralise Anna is still on course
Despite a shift in public mood against the government after the arrest of key Team Anna members, the government seems to be working to a plan. It believes the middle class protest will ultimately taper off as people tire of coming onto the street.
In politics, 80% is downhill, 20% is upswing: Jairam Ramesh
Cabinet minister Jairam Ramesh talks on politics, role models, the IITs, and how he managed to make it to ministership because of Sonia Gandhi.
Coastal security is a joke: Mumbai is sea-blind
First MV Wisdom, and now MV Pavit's unannounced drift to Mumbai's shores shows that despite government 'action' following 26/11, the city's coasts remain vulnerable.
All in for the almighty
The indomitable Bellary brothers continue to be a pillar of strength as well as the sharpest thorn in Karnataka BJP’s side. Towards the weekend, the BJP leadership was in a tizzy over who made Janardhan Reddy a minister in the state cabinet.
Decibel kings: Manish Tewari & other party spinmeisters
Today’s party spokespersons are spinmeisters who go with the flow. They don’t deliver information, provide a clarification or correct an impression but try and monopolise the air waves as much as possible to set the agenda for print the next day.