Vladimir Putin vs Tayyip Erdogan
They’re so megalomaniacally alike the world watched nervously as this fight unfolded. When Turkey shot down a Russian fighte...
Teesta Setalvad & Greenpeace vs Rajnath Singh
It was a tough year for NGOs. Rajnath’s home ministry froze Greenpeace’s foreign funds, even deplaned activist Pr...
KCR vs Chandrababu Naidu
The simmering war of attrition between the two CMs over Hyderabad spilled over to a juicy scandal. Chandrababu Naidu registered a case against...
Facebook vs Net Neutrality activists
Knowing how Indians love a free lunch, FB’s Free Basics platform promised ‘free Internet’ access to some websites for use...
FTII students vs Gajendra Chauhan
Long before our writers, scientists, historians and sundry else weighed in on the saffronisation debate, FTII’s film students start...
Salman Rushdie vs Bhalchandra Nemade
After winning the Jnanpith award, the Marathi writer lashed out at the author of Midnight’s Children, saying his work was...
Arun Shourie vs Modi sarkar
The soft-spoken but razor-sharp Arun Shourie lashed out at the Modi government for being “Congress plus cow”. Claiming he had never see...
Arvind Kejriwal vs Yogendra Yadav & Prashant Bhushan
The tension had been palpable for a while, and in true AAP style the fight was, um, explosive. Yadav and Bhushan c...
Ashis Nandy vs Dalit activists
The liberal-at-heart came tumbling down at the Jaipur lit-fest when he said—according to him in irony—that greater corruption was co...
Nitish vs BJP
Nitish Kumar and the BJP split finally, after many years of curious cohabitation. The BJP’s PM candidate Narendra Modi was the trigger. Nitish likened...
Nigella Lawson vs Charles Saatchi
We can’t call her the luscious Nigella Lawson—too sexist—but she did, admittedly, serve herself up as a feast. The burnt toast ...
V.K. Singh vs Everybody Else
Give him a national flag, and he’ll wave it at any platform, whether Anna’s village or Modi’s podium. The ex-army chief took on anyo...
U.K. Sinha versus Subroto Roy
Accusing Sahara of flouting an SC order to refund investor money, market regulator SEBI launched a furious campaign against the shadow-ba...
Gurudas Dasgupta vs Veerappa Moily
Dubbing the oil minister’s support to Reliance Industries in the KG basin gas matter a “sinister ploy” by that “rascal”, D...
Arvind Kejriwal vs Anna Hazare
Kejriwal sent heart-shaped letters to Anna all year round, begging him to support their anti-corruption movement’s political avatar. A...
Amartya Sen vs Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya
You’d hardly expect a fight between two leading economists to set the Yamuna on fire. But in a surcharged polit...
Manish Tiwari vs CAG
The Congress spokesman called for a public debate on the chief auditor’s Rs 1.76 lakh crore figure 2G spectrum scam loss: “The nation needs to...
Montek Singh Ahluwalia vs P. Sainath
When the Hindu columnist lashed out at the Planning Commission deputy chief for being flighty with the moolah on foreign tr...
Narendra Modi versus Shashi Tharoor
The Gujarat CM called the new HRD MoS’s wife his “Rs 50 crore girlfriend”. Tharoor tweeted that his wife is worth a lot more ...
**COMBO** Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan and Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde in a face-off during the debate on violence in Assam in Rajya Sabha in New Delhi.
