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Jug Suraiya: Mango Tango (11 May 05:16) |
| Now personally I think President Bush was paying us in India (and China) something of a left-handed compliment. |
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Bachi Karkaria: Not feni, fish and football (11 May 05:16) |
| Eating xit-koddi with kismur and the locals, reading through the articles, I realised that tourism is not just the state's welcome money-spinner, but also its undesirable yarn-spinner. |
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S Tharoor: Why Security Council is a distant dream (11 May 05:16) |
| Even though it’s been more than a year since I left the service of the UN, the one question people have still not stopped asking me is when India is going to become a permanent member of t... |
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Jug Suraiya: Electile dysfunction (04 May 03:47) |
| Many political philosophers have felt that the drawbridge architecture of elections represents the weakest part of the otherwise admirable edifice of democracy.
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Bachi Karkaria: U, Me Aur the hospital's hum (04 May 03:47) |
| It is nice to be in hospitals only under two conditions. One, if you have just had a baby, and two if you are standing by for a patient who is making a smart recovery.
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S A Aiyar: Wasting $50 bn on major irrigation (04 May 03:47) |
| India must abandon its existing strategy emphasizing surface irrigation from huge dams and canals. Instead it should focus on aquifer management.
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Chidanand Rajghatta: Grain Drain (27 April 05:47) |
| Growth in food production has not kept pace with increase in population and rise in consumption, as a result of which India has had to import wheat in the past couple of years.
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Shobhaa De: Cheerleader's diary (27 April 05:47) |
| It's about making money and looking good on television.
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S A Aiyar: India needs McCain as US President (27 April 05:47) |
| Most Indians would opt for Obama or Clinton. But from a policy viewpoint, McCain would be best for India.
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Shashi Tharoor: Are North, South heading for a Cold War? (27 April 05:47) |
| Countries of the developing South are acutely conscious of China's sensitivities over its sovereignty, and countries of the developed North are outraged over Beijing's crackdown in Lhasa.
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Shashi Tharoor: Can the Elephant dance with the Dragon? (20 April 03:55) |
| India and China are the two big countries said to be taking over the world, the new contenders for global eminence after centuries of Western domination.
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Bachi Karkaria: There's a Bong in my lassi (20 April 03:55) |
| Ethnicity is a universal errorgenous zone.
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Shobhaa De: Babalog in politics (13 April 07:19) |
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many young men would resist the chance to occupy a cabinet
kursi?
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S Tharoor: Change from within, says Dalai Lama (13 April 07:19) |
| When the United Nations convened a Millennium World Peace Summit of religious leaders at its headquarters in 2000, one major religious figure was conspicuous by his absence. |
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Chidanand Rajghatta: Metro matters (13 April 07:19) |
| By some accounts, MTA is the single largest employer of Indians in the US, although Microsoft, IBM and other tech majors may scoff at this claim. |
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Bachi Karkaria: My friend, the war reporter (13 April 07:19) |
| Last week I had to make some really tough choices. |
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Shashi Tharoor: India's underclass gets upwardly mobile (06 April 05:29) |
| Back in 1975, having a telephone was a rare privilege: if you weren't an important official, you might languish in a long waiting-list and never receive a phone.
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Swapan Dasgupta: Kowtowing to China (06 April 05:29) |
| Ruthlessly ambitious Indian politicians are loath to assume responsibility for the ministry of external affairs.
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Gurcharan Das: Power of subtitles (06 April 05:29) |
| In recent years we have seen the flowering of business entrepreneurs, making India one of the world's most dynamic economies.
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Chidanand Rajghatta: Migrant moolah (30 March 03:51) |
| India is now considered the biggest beneficiary of the remittance revolution.
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Bachi Karkaria: No manners please, we're celebrities (30 March 03:51) |
| Time and tide wait for no man. Yes. But celebrities are different.
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Jug Suraiya: Note of faith (30 March 03:51) |
| Faith is an infection easy to catch, impossible to stamp out.
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Jug Suraiya: Pees and cues (23 March 05:18) |
| Public speaking is not an art, nor a science. It's like peeing in public.
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Gurcharan Das: Thackeray scores a self-goal (23 March 05:18) |
| Following Raj Thackeray's Marathi rage, industrialists in Pune, Nashik, and Thane have slowed their expansion plans in Maharashtra and are looking towards other states.
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Bachi Karkaria: Why we love to hate Fiona (23 March 05:18) |
| Scarlette Keeling's mother Fiona may be an irresponsible parent, but she is certainly a very brave one.
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Swapan Dasgupta: Dynasty politics (23 March 05:18) |
| Why is Sonia Gandhi the only leader to enjoy an unbroken 10-year stint as the Congress party president?
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Jug Suraiya: From Taslima to Tibet, India proves chicken (21 March 03:19) |
| Instead of the peacock, India should adopt the chicken as its national bird. |
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C Rajghatta: Scarlett Letter Day (19 March 11:45) |
| It seems mistreatment, molestation, and even murder is becoming a feature of Incredible India. |
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C Rajghatta: Scarlette Letter Day (16 March 03:12) |
| It seems mistreatment, molestation, and even murder is becoming a feature of Incredible India.
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Shashi Tharoor: The strange case of Clinton vs Obama (16 March 03:12) |
| The Republicans have emerged with a credible candidate... while Obama and Hillary are going to spend the next several weeks trying to prove each other unworthy of office.
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Shobhaa De: (16 March 03:12) |
| Money, money, money... it's so funny... it's a rich man's world. Especially for us folks in India, now that it is official - four of the world's 10 wealthiest individuals are Indians.
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Jug Suraiya: Ownership of the past (28 February 05:32) |
| Can, or should, a creative individual rejig the past to suit his own inventive purposes; can poetic licence extend to history?
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S Aiyar: Election budgets don't win votes (24 February 05:10) |
| Election budgets make hardly any difference to election results.
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B Karkaria: (24 February 05:10) |
| Community is our stickiest glue, and nothing bonds us as willingly as our clan food. Scratch a Punjabi and you'll get a maa ki daal - after the ma ki gaali.
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Swapan Dasgupta: IPL's not just cricket (24 February 05:10) |
| There is little point invoking tradition to judge last Wednesday's Indian Premier League's auction of cricketers in Mumbai.
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Jug Suraiya: Invest in blue-chip (21 February 05:18) |
| With the markets worldwide in a jittery mood, investors are looking at new ways of portfolio diversification. |
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Tarun Vijay: Allah's will and US strategy (20 February 11:32) |
| Pakistan has decided in favour of peoples' power, ending the darkness of dictatorial President who has been reduced to saying "he is willing to work with anyone". |
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Gurcharan Das: Let's stop living a lie (27 January 05:38) |
| We all need to acknowledge our past failures publicly. Only then will we stop repeating mistakes or reforming by stealth. Only then will we mature as a nation.
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Bachi Karkaria: Cull aaj aur kal (27 January 05:38) |
| If a Spring chicken gets culled in Bengal, can a culinary winter be far behind for the rest of us?
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Swapan Dasgupta: Break from the past (27 January 03:33) |
| There are two interesting facets of a state visit to India by a British dignitary, be it royal or commoner.
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Shashi Tharoor: Let's play the game, not politics (20 January 05:14) |
| It is dangerous to act as if the undoubted financial weight of India in world cricket entitles us to our own set of rules.
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Bachi Karkaria: How to turn a Nani into a Nano (20 January 05:14) |
| From Day One of 2008, we had been bombarded with outrage and 'in' rage, when, suddenly, like an emission of fresh air, the Nano arrived, and handed us the Holy Grail on a glittering ramp.
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S A Aiyar: Strange rise of Eastern neo-colonialism (20 January 05:14) |
| Last week, Citibank received $ 14.5 billion from investment funds in China and Kuwait, over and above the $ 7.5 billion it got last November from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.
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S A Aiyar: Dark clouds on 2008 horizon (20 January 05:14) |
| A US recession is likely to reduce India's GDP growth rate to 7%. Sonia Gandhi should consider a mid-term election in early 2008, before the global slump hits hard. |
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S Tharoor: Comebacks ignite US primaries race (13 January 03:15) |
| The results from the US primary elections in recent days have thrown up a fascinating contest for the Presidential nominations of both parties.
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Jug Suraiya: Policy matters (13 January 03:15) |
| It all began 21 years ago when Bunny and I came to Delhi from Calcutta.
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B Karkaria: 'National honour' and other disgraces (13 January 03:15) |
| Thank God, Ratan Tata's pride-instilling baba-gadi drove those cricket brats off the headline, foot-line and every other news-line. |
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C Rajghatta: Divvying up the diaspora (06 January 03:34) |
| The Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2008, starting in New Delhi later this week, has panel discussions on infrastructure, culture, philanthropy etc that sound like a rerun of any previous PBD editio... |
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Jug Suraiya: Divine rites (06 January 03:34) |
| Few will shed tears for Gyanendra, who ascended the throne in dubious circumstances after the 2001 royal massacre and whose criminally inept handling of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal create... |
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S Tharoor: Democracy won't die with Benazir in Pak (06 January 03:34) |
| The widely-expressed view that Benazir epitomised Pakistan's hopes for democracy, which have now perished with her, seriously overstates both what she represented and the implications of her... |
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