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Prasenjit Chowdhury Across the class divide that is India, the grumbling against the UPA had been that its overemphasis on social welfare and security has led to inflated welfare expenditures at the cost of growth. Because, it is an…
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KG Suresh As the countdown begins for the first anniversary of the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government, there has been a deluge of ground reports, surveys, opinion polls, ratings, analyses etc on its performance. The Opposition, on expected…
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Sunaina malik It is a well known fact that man and woman are two significant wheels of a blissful home. The societal and conjugal life show stunted boom, if  either of wheels show deformity. Both  the parties are shouldered with equal…
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Hari shankar vyas Congress leaders are claiming that their strategy has worked and they have been successful in stopping the Land Bill. Though, BJP leaders are not giving any credit to the Congress; they are saying that it's because of…
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Gurmeet Kanwal India conducted five nuclear tests over two days on 11th and 13th May, 1998, and declared itself a state armed with nuclear weapons. Since then, India's nuclear deterrence has been effectively operationalised. With a…
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Hiranmay Karlekar  To many, the explosion of thunder and snuffle over the Salman Khan case is now old hat, given the ephemeral lifespan of news items. Yet aspects of it, particularly the reactions of a significant section of India's…
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Swapan Dasgupta  There is a rarefied view, quite prevalent among both the non-voting classes and the tribe of over-zealous activists associated with what has come to be called 'civil society', that holds Indian democracy in very low…
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Dear Editor, In 1977-78, a pioneering scientist in 'Air Pollution Studies' from the U.S., Prof. Elmer Robinson, visited the Taj Mahal under the Fulbright Exchange Program, also a time when the impact of SO and SO gases (sulphate) from the…
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Pratibha Lalotra Had I not been through it, I would have never ever actually realised the intensity of that one sentence "I have been to hell and back....!" by our country's heartthrob Deepika Padukone. During one of her appearances on…
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Ashok K Mehta  When the National Democratic Alliance Government came to power last year, its main advocacy was that it was a 'different' and more muscular government than the previous one, and would not be pushed around. In foreign policy,…
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