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Vote For Baba Ramdev?

It’s not really the joke it seems. The yoga guru is voicing a mass sentiment. It’s getting him attention, if not votes.

Mar 14, 2011

| Sheela Reddy

therapy: speech impediments

Streaming Syllables

People who stammer are taking heart from celebrities who found clear speech

Mar 14, 2011

| Smita Mitra
- Not Beyond K-K-Kiran?
UPA: CVC goof-up

Caesar’s Salad

The SC rap of the tainted CVC is another body blow for the UPA and Manmohan

Mar 14, 2011

| Saba Naqvi
Outlook-MDRA opinion poll: Tamil Nadu

54% Say AIADMK Alliance Will Come To Power

Price rise (72.5%) trumps corruption (18.7%) as the main issue in elections

Mar 14, 2011

| MDRA
media: tv channels

Their Master’s Image

With news channels of their own, politicians become the medium

Mar 14, 2011

| Anuradha Raman Madhavi Tata
kashmir: army census

Count Dracula

The army’s parallel census in Sopore is leaving its people fuming

Mar 14, 2011

| Showkat A. Motta
opinion

State Your Cause

All opportunities for talks with Maoists have been squandered

Mar 14, 2011

| Neelabh Mishra
opinion

The Whisky King o’Blighty

On how the Sawhneys became big purveyors of fine spirits

Mar 14, 2011

| Manohar Singh Gill
review

Know India: Learn The Alphabet By Heart

The raised-as-American Giridharadas has a steady eye, but his set-pieces are a patchwork in a big book

Mar 14, 2011

| Manjula Padmanabhan
review

A Flaneur, A Bomb. But Teekh-Taakh

In piquant, masala-encrusted England, a British-Pakistani meets an explosive ideal

Mar 14, 2011

| Tabish Khair
andhra pradesh: power plant

All Sooted Up

A thermal plant threatens a rich wetland

Mar 14, 2011

| Madhavi Tata
cricket: world cup

Flight Plan

On flat World Cup tracks, spinners have struck back

Mar 14, 2011

| Rohit Mahajan Amir Mir
- The Slo-Mo Verdict
Libya: Meeting Gaddafi

A Desert Fox In Tripoli

Bluster framed with cunning, Col Gaddafi is not Reagan's 'mad dog'

Mar 14, 2011

| Paul Danahar
Budget 2011-12

How To Add Up A Zero Sum

No major reform-related proposals, no measures to check corruption and inflation. Hopes pinned on growth.

Mar 14, 2011

| Lola Nayar

10 Questions

Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas, on his book India Calling

Mar 14, 2011

| Anjali Puri
Last Page

Kochi Diary

How do you live in Mumbai? You should have time for friends, live very close to nature and have a good meal on the table...

Mar 14, 2011

| Saira Menezes
review

Know India: Learn The Alphabet By Heart

The raised-as-American Giridharadas has a steady eye, but his set-pieces are a patchwork in a big book

Mar 14, 2011

| Manjula Padmanabhan
review

A Flaneur, A Bomb. But Teekh-Taakh

In piquant, masala-encrusted England, a British-Pakistani meets an explosive ideal

Mar 14, 2011

| Tabish Khair
the Secret Diary of

A. Raja From Tihar Jail

Suddenly, I remembered Adolf Hitler. Like him, should I seize the day, write my own ‘Raja’s Kampf’?

Mar 14, 2011

| Ajith Pillai
movie review

True Grit

A good old revenge saga set in the wild, wild West, the second adaptation of Charles Portis’s novel

Mar 14, 2011

| Namrata Joshi
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