Back home in Sivakasi, Sridevi’s is a political clan as well
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COVER STORY
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By pitting itself against the bureaucracy, AAP is undermining the very mechanism its government needs to deliver what it promised the people
AAP grew overambitious; its leader anyway tended to be autocratic. The party’s slide began when it became unscrupulous. Will it reform its ways?
There’s talk of President’s Rule, but, for better optics, the BJP will more likely let Delhi’s AAP government hoist itself with its own petard
"The all-pervasive spirituality of Kashi simply takes you over…like you are being enveloped by something greater."
Angry, Alternative Politics, they called it. But has AAP failed to redeem its pledge? Is it too angry, and not alternative enough?
Saddest contradictions are Tamil politicians. They are probably the worst opportunists and the most corrupt, still spouting Periyar and Ambedkar, equally comfortable in a necktie and a konakam (loin cloth)
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Content-wise, Hindi cinema was not her best, but she shone uniquely
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By pitting itself against the bureaucracy, AAP is undermining the very mechanism its government needs to deliver what it promised the people
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AAP grew overambitious; its leader anyway tended to be autocratic. The party’s slide began when it became unscrupulous. Will it reform its ways?
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There’s talk of President’s Rule, but, for better optics, the BJP will more likely let Delhi’s AAP government hoist itself with its own petard
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"The all-pervasive spirituality of Kashi simply takes you over…like you are being enveloped by something greater."
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Obstructionist bureaucracy needs an injection of specialists
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A regular column on the essential buzz
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Angry, Alternative Politics, they called it. But has AAP failed to redeem its pledge? Is it too angry, and not alternative enough?
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Saddest contradictions are Tamil politicians. They are probably the worst opportunists and the most corrupt, still spouting Periyar and Ambedkar, equally comfortable in a necktie and a konakam (loin cloth)
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Complex, hypnotic and neglected, Raza’s <em>Scene 75</em> speaks of the rank ruthlessness of ’70s Bollywood and the stewing jostle of the middle class
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Kamalahaasan launches his party, Rajnikanth another movie
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Protests against the rape of a Muslim Gujjar girl gain two strands. One is to ‘evict all nomads’ from Jammu.
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With polls pending, Khaleda Zia in jail and Hasina pampering Islamists, Bangladesh is on edge
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Angry worshippers of a Karnataka's village; hauted Assembly in Rajasthan. Read all the juicy gossip...