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By Jagdish Rattanani |
The BJP has distanced itself from the remarks by the CEO of Niti Aayog Amitabh Kant that India has been “too much of a…
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After the State of Hyderabad was forced to merge with India on September 17, 1948, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru also…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There is little doubt among many reasonably well-informed people that there is an ugly mix of the vaudeville and the…
For nearly four days America, nay the world, held its breath waiting for the November 3 US presidential election…
By Ajit Ranade |
Kamala Harris will become the first ever Vice President of America to have Indian ancestry. Senator Harris’s mother…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
This looks like a nail-biting finish, with all the marks of suspense, swings, threats, bullies, claims and…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The world’s most-watched election is today, Nov.03, with Joe Biden in the lead but pollsters still unsure if he will…
By Ajit Ranade |
In September 2018 a five-judge constitution bench that included the Chief Justice of India, pronounced an important…
By Martin Macwan |
Hathras is the first case of Independent India where the State has deprived the parents of sexual abuse victim to…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The overwhelming feeling that comes to mind about the manner in which the Uttar Pradesh administration has handled the…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
There are, broadly speaking, two approaches to building as also to breaking – be it a policy, an institution or for…
By Ganesh N Devy |
The contempt of court case against the Tamil actor Suriya (which was fortunately and wisely dropped by the Madras High…
By Arup Kumar Dutta |
The Covid-19 novel coronavirus continues to spread, by now afflicting all continents except the Antarctic. At the time…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The statement by the father of Rhea Chakraborty reflects the pain and the discomfort many might feel at the manner in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In a course on journalism that I taught years ago, one exercise I often asked was for the class to roam around Mumbai’s…