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Over the years, we have been conditioned to like certain things and dislike others. Sometimes these likes come in waves called fashion and die, others are ingrained in us over decades. We, in India, still haven’t in the 70 years of Independence, gotten over the...

In less than six months since his retirement as Chief Justice of India, Ranjan Gogoi has been nominated by President Ram Nath Kovind for Rajya Sabha. Gogoi retired November 17, 2019, after penning several key judgements that have largely been favourable to the ruling dispensation...

Through a deft move, Madhya Pradesh chief minister Kamal Nath has bought political time by invoking a health related (COVID-19) fear and postponing the Assembly session by 10 days. This, at a time when it was widely perceived that his ministry’s fall was imminent. With...

India – and the world - is effectively in an emergency mode. Due to COVID-19, flight services are disrupted, businesses have landed themselves in slow mode and public assembly is increasingly getting prohibited. Shopping malls and cinema halls have been asked to down shutters in...

How sovereign is India and to what extent can it do what it wishes to? We are the world’s largest democracy, second largest country and arms importer, with the third biggest army and fifth largest economy. By any account this is an impressive set of...

Under the ceaseless gaze of social media, it is increasingly difficult for babus to slip under the radar. Nothing escapes its stern scrutiny, as former DGP, Uttar Pradesh, OP Singh recently discovered. The former 1983-batch IPS officer has been unwilling to surrender his official bungalow...

YES Bank, one of the major new age private banks promoted by Rana Kapoor, had all the makings to be a successful venture when it had set up shop in 2004. Until about a couple of years back, this bank was a darling of the...

Every now and then I rescue chickens from illegal roadside khokhas, where they sit in wire cages and watch their brothers being beheaded. (I have stopped all the khokhas in my constituency and so should you as, under the Municipal Act passed by Parliament years...

Yes Bank has sunk but the script is the same. The Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor and his family, it is now revealed, had set up over 20 shell companies to receive ‘kickbacks’ from businessmen who took huge loans from the bank and then defaulted on...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ruled India for six years. What is the endgame he has in mind for his ideology and where does he intend to take India? Ultra nationalist ideologies express themselves internally against minority groups and externally wish to express strength militarily....