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Oh! The irony

The idea of reservation was to eliminate the deep-rooted malaise of “social backwardness” from the minds of...

25 Feb 2016 11:29 PM IST

Prabhu’s Budget: A please-all

Prabhu’s Budget: A please-all

There was a collective sigh of relief from commuters as Union railway minister Suresh Prabhu shied away from hiking...

25 Feb 2016 11:27 PM IST

The ‘Munna Bhai’ paradox

The ‘Munna Bhai’ paradox

Sanjay Dutt’s release from prison after he served out his five-year jail term in two instalments of 18 and 42...

25 Feb 2016 11:25 PM IST

Time to call out the nationalism bogey

Time to call out the nationalism bogey

Few require reminding that whenever she was beleaguered, Indira Gandhi blamed the “foreign hand”. She found...

25 Feb 2016 11:21 PM IST

Finance minister or supermom

Finance minister or supermom

High expectations in the near mystical ability of any finance minister to find a balm for all economic ills is common...

25 Feb 2016 11:15 PM IST

Success and sacrifice

Success and sacrifice

Whenever people speak of spiritual life, they entertain ideas of renunciation, dispassion (vairagya), sacrifice and...

25 Feb 2016 11:13 PM IST

A crying shame

The recent Jawaharlal Nehru University campus happenings were followed by lawlessness and violence in Patiala House...

25 Feb 2016 11:10 PM IST

Age Debate: The promise breakers

Age Debate: The promise breakers

For over 10 days Haryana burnt, scores of lives were lost and the exchequer suffered in excess of Rs 20,000 crore.

25 Feb 2016 12:54 AM IST

Tame your tongue

Tame your tongue

Grandpa and grandma had quarrelled. Grandpa was so furious that he refused to talk to grandma. While grandma had...

25 Feb 2016 12:34 AM IST

Quashing dissent

Quashing dissent

The national Security Council secretariat plans to start a national media analytics centre to scour blogs, Facebook,...

25 Feb 2016 12:12 AM IST

Same old Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent statement that “some people” were not able to digest the fact...

25 Feb 2016 12:11 AM IST

Why fear arrest

Why fear arrest

In courting arrest late on Tuesday night, Umar Khalid did the right thing.

25 Feb 2016 12:10 AM IST