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By Vidyadhar Date |
A recently released book about alleged corruption in the Mumbai Cricket Association or MCA is titled ‘Bouncer’. The…
By Martin Macwan |
It is over a month since Droupadi Murmu became the 15th President of India. She is the second woman and the first…
By Ajit Ranade |
There was an extraordinary heat wave in March in northern India which caused wheat yields to go down. The heat wave in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Seventy-five years of Independence marks a significant milestone in the history of a nation rising. We can quibble over…
By Ajit Ranade |
The third week of July marks two anniversaries of events in 1969, one national and the other international. The latter…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The Chief Justice of India (CJI) N V Ramana and the Supreme Court have offered a wake-up call to the nation on the…
By Ajit Ranade |
In the past eight months, foreign portfolio investors have moved out nearly 40 billion dollars out of India, by selling…
By Vappala Balachandran |
The assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on July 8 in Nara City reminds me of my first lessons in…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Uddhav Thackeray will have to take his case to the people very fast, and take on the role of Maharashtra’s wounded…
By Lekha Rattanani |
Maharashtra has irked the BJP over the last few years and the Shiv Sena under Uddhav Thackeray as the Chief Minister…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In the story of the blind men and the elephant, each touching a different part of the animal and quarrelling over what…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretariat, “condemned and de-nounced” statements made by two…
By Ganesh N Devy |
Like Janus, the RSS and the BJP have two faces, one face has marks of the actions of the past on it. Some of these…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The nation should be shell shocked by the report of an eminent panel set up by the Supreme Court to investigate the…