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cover story: the koda files
All of Jharkhand was his stage, and Koda a major player. So, who rewrote the script?
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politics: west bengal
Overconfident then, cornered now. Political hubris visits Buddhadeb Bhattacharya.
politics: bjp
Maharashtra BJP president Nitin Gadkari is a reluctant candidate for party chief
politics: uttar pradesh
Mulayam finds himself immobilised in his own political akhara
poll sutra
When I recently came down with swine flu, what inspired me most was the state police’s quick reaction in nabbing those responsible for passing it on.
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pakistan: terror
As the Taliban strike at will, ordinary people live in fear and uncertainty
opinion
Foreign correspondents were shamefully kept out of Tawang
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economy: sugar
Drought, politics, a mills vs farmers feud have shot up sugar prices
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pakistan: fashion
Pakistan defied terror to have a successful first fashion week
society: art
Collectors are sharing their often idiosyncratic visions with others in private museums
health: vaccination
A vaccine for cervical cancer raises questions
opinion
Big names, big blather...the schmoozing summit season is on.
contraception ad blitz
Lured by ads, many adopt morning-after pills indiscriminately
foodie alert
Too many people equate organic food with patchouli-scented pot-smokers listening to Pete Seeger and talking tearfully of our crimes against Mother Earth...
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kerala: sports
Under Usha’s wing, Tintu visualises gold
northeast: football
Shillong’s own FC hasn’t just stoked football mania. It has advanced tolerance in Meghalaya.
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profile
Kamalahaasan, Indian legend, completes 50 years in cinema
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review
Only a few of the Britons who stayed on after ’47 remain. This book shows they were more diverse than imagined.
Sam Miller on After The Raj: The Last Stayers-On And The Legacy Of British India By Hugh Purcell
review
A nostalgic sweep across 80 years reaps classics without generic bias, but is Hindi-heavy
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Analjit Singh trades Vodafone shares for profit and builds long-term business like insurance. What will he do with East India Hotels?
Ashish Gupta
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Unless the government calls in the changes, what’s happening to Air India today might well happen to BSNL—India’s second largest telecom company—tomorrow.
Anurag Prasad
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Foreign inflows are back. Companies are able to raise and invest capital. Is the virtuous cycle of growth about to start all over again?
Mahesh Nayak
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Its first attempt at a public issue was aimed at grand expansion. Its second attempt is aimed at sheer survival.
And even that is a tall task.
John Samuel Raja D
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Pankaj Anup Toppo
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Rajesh Kumar
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India’s most financially stable and capital efficient companies
Rajesh Padmashali
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After the robust gains this year, experts say metal prices have factored in the ongoing global recovery. Further gains will hinge on a sustained recovery, especially in the US and Europe
Pramod Bhat
Century Management’s Arnold Van Den Berg has built a spectacular track record of performance over the past 40 years, by placing his bets based on the fair value of stocks, relative to bonds and historic valuation bands
Mohammed Ekramul Haque
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Polaris’ decision to remain a niche player in banking and financial services could work to its advantage as the sector leads the recovery in tech spending
Kripa Mahalingam
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The onslaught of DTH and intense competition within the cable TV market leave Den Networks’ business model with little room for error
Arundhati Bakshi-Dighe
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Sopan Joshi enjoys the gentle pleasures of hiking in the hills of southern Rajasthan.
Sopan Joshi
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Nature meets nurture in a startling and ancient ritual in the black hills of Kutch.
Pankaj Sekhsaria
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Rajasthan’s newest luxury train surpasses the legendary Palace on Wheels by a wide berth.
Juhi Saklani
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In Kazakhstan, Samit Basu tours the bewildering new-rise city of Astana and the historic former capital Almaty.
Samit Basu
Actually Jaipur now has coats of many colours. Annie M. Mathews gets you up to speed on its current attractions.
Annie M. Mathews
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The government sector offers jobs in almost all fields ranging from agriculture to hospitality. Know the possibilities before
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A look at how some institutions blatantly cheat students of their future
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A good distance learning institution grows indiscriminately and in the process puts a question mark on the future
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The Indian Institute of Management''''s Common Admission Test (CAT)is a pre-requisite for admission to various management programmes
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A superior course, global exposure, international faculty and dollar salaries, so claims IIPM. Careers360 investigates
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Delhi Diary
If the MEA gave the Dalai Lama a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where he seems to be very popular, India’s border dispute with China would be solved in 48 hours... Vinod Mehta
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people
Glitterati
The page 3 people, the chatterati and those in the news for being in the news |
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Polscape
Random notes, gossip, bitching, angles, conspiracy theories, spoofs, essential fundas |
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| Friday, November 20, 2009 |
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From The Blogs
1984 was tragic for another reason: Faiz Ahmed Faiz died on November 20, 1984, making it his 25th death anniversary today
Sundeep Dougal
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Comment
Test cricket is the best test of a player’s skills. But pitches like the one that dulled the cricket at Ahmedabad can only also dull the ardour of Test cricket’s aficionados.
Rahul Mahajan
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View From israel
62 years after its foundation, the State of Israel is still living in fear of the “demographic danger”. It is afraid of its Arab citizens, and therefore discriminates against them in every sphere.
Uri Avnery
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| Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
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Southern Spice
The latest MMS doing the rounds -- a priest having sex with a succession of women in the sanctum sanctorum of the Machcheshwara Peruman temple in Kanchipuram -- leaves people shocked and aghast
Pushpa Iyengar
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Comment
He just doesn't understand how much the Indian civil society distrusts China, that it is deeper than even the distrust of Pakistan
B. Raman
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Opinion
The recent Obama-Hu summit makes India's concerns on China real and urgent. It remains to be seen how Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acquits himself in Washington.
Rajinder Puri
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| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 |
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For The Record
Official Spokesperson on US-China Joint Statement of November 17, 2009
MEA
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ULFA
Bangladeshi cooperation has been critical in crippling the ULFA, but there is certainly some potential for its regrouping with Chinese support, evidence of which is already available.
Wasbir Hussain
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View From UK
The challenge of feeding 7 or 8 billion people while oil supplies are falling is stupefying. It’ll be even greater if governments keep pretending that it isn’t going to happen.
George Monbiot
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| Tuesday, November 17, 2009 |
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Platform
A true commitment to non-violence should not be conditional and fragile. Gandhi did not say: "Give India independence or else I will unleash terrorist brigades on you." That was Jinnah’s method, not Gandhi’s.
Madhu Purnima Kishwar
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View From Kabul
The tale of the "reconstruction" of Kabul's electricity supply is a classic story of how foreign aid has often served to line the pockets of both international contractors from the donor countries and the local political elite.
Pratap Chatterjee
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Opinion
By allowing his pique to get the better of him, General Fonseka has only devalued himself.
B. Raman
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| Monday, November 16, 2009 |
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Opinion
This week gone by illustrated the big difference between the politics of dualism that the Congress has come to practice and the politics of deceit symbolised by the relationship between Mulayam Singh Yadav and Kalyan Singh
Saba Naqvi
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Opinion
The cover-up in the Madhu Koda mining case already seems to have begun. But, it is so crude and brazen that the political damage could be equally disastrous.
Rajinder Puri
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Opinion
So now we are told that Omar Sheikh's Pak handler Ilyas Kashmiri also handled Headley, but what exactly is his and/or his outfit's relationship with Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan?
B. Raman
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| Saturday, November 14, 2009 |
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From The Wires
First -- even if very mild -- public snub For Chief Minister Sheila Dixit from a partyman
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20 Years Later
The media, as always and like everyone, wants a piece of him, and Tendulkar knows it's part of the deal, goes through the inquisition with immeasurable patience, trying to ensure that everyone's happy
Rohit Mahajan
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RE-VISITING MUMBAI 26/11
Did Headley, whose visits to India coincided with July 2006 explosions 26/11, play a role in the planning and execution of these attacks? Were there others who had helped him?
B. Raman
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