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Thursday, Jul 25,2013, 09:31 IST .
Ramachandra Guha never learns, does he? There’s a limit to how
many times his bluff has been called. Or is there? Wait…there
is a limit to the number of times his bluff has been
called but given his record, his capacity to bluff is
infinite. When I searched for “Ramachandra Guha” on my blog, it
returned forty nine results. T..
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Monday, May 20,2013, 14:14 IST .
Translation of Pratap Simha’s column 18 May 2013 column in
Kannada Prabha.
An incident comes to mind. The incident is recorded in Shanti
Bhushan’s autobiography, Courting Destiny. The incident
occurred sometime in 1978.
Morarji Desai had completed an year as Prime Minister. He began
to face threats to his chair. The powerful Janata leader and Home
Minist..
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Monday, Apr 29,2013, 00:25 IST .
He came, he saw, he spoke, and he wowed. He’d
already conquered Bangalore years ago. In his 28 April election
speech on the eve of the Karnataka Assembly polls 2013, Narendra
Modi simply notched up yet another triumph in a long series of
triumphs that began with his third
consecutive, definitive victory in the Gujarat
Assembly polls. Nobody expected a..
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Tuesday, Mar 05,2013, 18:05 IST .
The most important thing before we begin is to call things by
their proper name. One, our clever-by-half media and secularati
have twisted the retraction of Wharton School
India Economic Forum’s invitation to Narendra Modi as a “
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Monday, Mar 04,2013, 08:33 IST .
After failing to show how Sita’s
abduction by Ravana and her abandonment by Rama qualify as “rape”
and/or “sexual assault,” Nilanjana Roy turns to Draupadi whom she
characterizes as follows:
Dra..
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Tuesday, Feb 19,2013, 10:21 IST .
What’s common to LeT, JuD, Yasin Malik, and Hafiz Saeed? All are
terrorists who’ve vowed the destruction of India and have at
various points, taken violent steps to make this intention clear.
What else is common to LeT, JuD, Yasin Malik,
and Hafiz Saeed? All of ‘em terrorists have
mourned the execution of the homegrown traitor cum terror..
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Thursday, Feb 07,2013, 13:00 IST .
Be very scared each time you hear the words “Grand Mufti.” The
first thing it reminds us of is the Grand Mufti
Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Islamic cleric and extremist leader of
Jerusalem who personally oversaw the massacre of Jews not once
buttwice. The story of how he ordered the slaughter
of thousands of Jews in Palestine first in 1929 and then in..
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Sunday, Jan 20,2013, 11:31 IST .
Nilanjana Roy’s Business Standard piece on Jan 08, 2013 entitled A
woman alone in the forest is just the latest in what has
become a much-lauded fad. A fad whose staple diet consists of a
distorted reading of Indian epics, misin..
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Monday, Dec 17,2012, 23:18 IST .
The list of the Most Loathsome Indians of 2012 is short this
time simply because loathsomeness has become a way of life. Some
usual names that figure pretty much every year have been omitted.
If this surprises you, don’t be.
Instead, think. Deeply. But
before that, here’s the list.
9. Girish Karnad
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Thursday, Nov 29,2012, 01:16 IST .
This man has caused great loss not only to the Muslim
community but to the entire society. He may be occupying a very
high office, but we will not spare him. He has committed grave and
deliberate mistakes. I have ordered a detailed inquiry into the
bank’s functioning.
This is how Mumtaz Ali Khan, Karnataka Minister for Haj, Wakf and
Minority Welfare
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Tuesday, Nov 20,2012, 00:56 IST .
But who was he really? Do we go by the opinions of analysts who
put him on par with political cartoonists like R.K. Laxman? Or,
barring Times Now, do we go by the opinion of
the rest of the English news channels who unanimously declare him
to be a socially divisive force? Or in light of the several
unnecessary statements he made about Belgaum, do we regard him—like
ma..
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Monday, Nov 12,2012, 01:12 IST .
The Mumbai Lit fest on Friday witnessed major drama when
veteran actor and theatre artist Girish Karnad slammed Nobel prize
laureate VS Naipaul and called him anti-Muslim. Karnad, who was
present at the lit-fest on Friday to conduct a class on theatre,
spoke at length about Naipaul.
The first paragraph of CNN-IBN’s news report makes it clear that
the purpos..
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Tuesday, Nov 06,2012, 00:24 IST .
So Girish Karnad is back again. In style. And
with a fury I scarcely expected he was capable of. It’s really a
monumental pity that a fine actor like Girish Karnad can nary
control his itch to mouth inanities.
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Saturday, Nov 03,2012, 17:44 IST .
It is surprising how somebody whom you’ve had as your personal
icon later transmogrifies in your eyes and then becomes the object
of shallowness and intellectual vacuity. To me, Girish Karnad
symbolizes this metamorphosis. I was an ardent admirer of this
dramatist in my late teens; this admiration spilled over into my
early twenties, too. I’ve read almost all of his plays in the
o..
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Tuesday, Oct 09,2012, 11:54 IST .
An obituary is the mightiest writer’s block. And so this shan’t
be an obituary. One writes obituaries to dead people. Varsha Bhosle
will live forever. Her bodily
death is, in the highest tradition of Sanatana
Dharm..
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Saturday, Sep 01,2012, 16:26 IST .
There used to be a time not too long ago when the most
charitable thing that the media said about Modi went something like
this: “Narendra Modi is no stranger to controversy.” The story of
how that narrative changed after the courts exonerated him in the
riots cases and with how the Gujarat economic juggernaut kept
rolling doesn’t need repetition. Today, no matter how hard t..