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Caste Is Missing In Prohibition Debates

The point made by sociologist M N Srinivas, that it represented a Sanskritic act that was linked to caste, is never raised in Indian debates and the disapproval of drink is almost universal, notes......

Can India Deal with Halahal In Amrit Kaal?

We have our own problems for sure and they are not trivial, but for now, our economy is in not too bad a shape, our politics is as personality-driven and authoritarian as that of most countries in......

KRN's life was a saga of surprises

'KRN's journey from a humble cottage in Uzhavoor to Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi was no less spectacular than that of Abraham Lincoln from the log cabin to the White House,' notes Ambassador T P......

'People hated him. People loved him. But people could never ignore him'

'The Congress party hated him because he had not gone to jail, he was not lathi charged, he had not gone on hunger strike.''They felt he had lived in London all his life and then he came to India......

Were Nehru and Menon responsible for the 1962 defeat?

'Rightly or wrongly, 1962 got ascribed to Krishna Menon and him alone. That's unfair.''Certainly, he was one of the guilty men, but he was not the only guilty man. Mistakes were made all around.'......

BJP's Big Problem: No economic thinkers

'How do you deliver wealth when you don't have the slightest idea about it?' asks T C A Srinivasa Raghavan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com One of the biggest problems that the BJP has is......

The uniqueness of Professor Raj

Bliss it must have been in that dawn to be alive, but to be an economist working for Jawaharlal Nehru must have been heaven (with apologies to Wordsworth)! No retired bureaucrat around to say you......

'West must accept consequences of the rise of Asia

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who will travel to The Philippines for the ASEAN Summit next week, inaugurated the third London School of Economics Asia Forum at the Taj Palace Hotel, New Delhi, on......

'Dhirubhai wouldn't have liked Anil to be an MP'

Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani, the legendary founder of Reliance Industries Ltd, had a huge circle of friends belonging to different professions and businesses.For a man who didn't go to college,......

'Balraj Sahni was a misfit in filmdom'

On his birth centenary on May 2013, veteran actor Balraj Sahni's grandniece, Malavika Sangghvi, recounts his extraordinary but sad life.The world knew him as Balraj Sahni, the celebrated......

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Harold Laski

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Caste Is Missing In Prohibition Debates

Can India Deal with Halahal In Amrit Kaal?

KRN's life was a saga of surprises

'People hated him. People loved him. But people could never ignore him'

Were Nehru and Menon responsible for the 1962 defeat?

BJP's Big Problem: No economic thinkers

The uniqueness of Professor Raj

'West must accept consequences of the rise of Asia

'Dhirubhai wouldn't have liked Anil to be an MP'

'Balraj Sahni was a misfit in filmdom'

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