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A road accident and an Alice in Wonderland State

The case of Mahesh Patil, who was arrested for negligence after his mother fell off his bike and died after it hit a pothole, should serve as an eye-opener for the authorities and the legal......

The two kinds of violence on display at India Gate

There were certainly two kinds of violence at India Gate: one avoidable, another reprehensible, notes Mahesh Vijapurkar. No doubt there was violence at India Gate. The violence was of two genres,......

The Ajit Pawar bomb: Will it explode or fizzle out?

A swift move by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan on Ajit Pawar's resignation could have thrown the too-clever NCP into utter confusion and secured a belaboured Congress an opportunity to come out......

Putting a spin on the Uttarakhand tragedy

Politicians have used the Himalayan tragedy to score political brownie points and the media has been a willing participant, says Mahesh Vijapurkar. Politics is the art of the possible, and spin......

Why the Sanjay Dutt case highlights need for jail reforms

Our jails are not reforming inmates but are turning into an inhuman system of heaping punishment, says Mahesh Vijapurkar. It is common knowledge that jails are no picnic spots. The conditions there......

The unresolved whodunits of urban real estate

The real estate business thrives on creating excess spaces beyond the permitted building codes, short-changing the buyer, and even opting for poorer quality of material. This finds an enthusiastic......

Will 100 smart cities become a reality in India?

Sizes of cities often turn out to be their enemies because everything costs a bomb to build and operate, says Mahesh Vijapurkar. A hundred new cities spoken of in Narendra Modi’s election......

Bullet trains? First change the stinky coaches and stations

Amid all the changes that Railways has undergone over the decades, one thing has been constant - untidy stations and malodourous trains, says Mahesh Vijapurkar.There are four categories of......

Ho-hum, so the Lok Sabha discussed black money, what's new?

Can a corrupt revenue system be trusted to keep confidences when oodles of money are involved, asks Mahesh Vijapurkar The other day, when Bharatiya Janata Party leader L K Advani moved an......

Road projects, flyovers: A major scandal?

Mahesh Vijapurkar smells a scandal in the BOT model for road projects. I am beginning to suspect that construction of road and related infrastructure like flyovers and bridges in out country could......

Say no to the Games, else the guilty will escape!

Mahesh Vijapurkar urges sports persons to stand up and show contempt for the poor standards that appearthe benchmark of the Commonwealth Games. Much has been said on the Commonwealth Games (CWG),......

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News for Mahesh Vijapurkar

A road accident and an Alice in Wonderland State

The two kinds of violence on display at India Gate

The Ajit Pawar bomb: Will it explode or fizzle out?

Putting a spin on the Uttarakhand tragedy

Why the Sanjay Dutt case highlights need for jail reforms

The unresolved whodunits of urban real estate

Will 100 smart cities become a reality in India?

Bullet trains? First change the stinky coaches and stations

Ho-hum, so the Lok Sabha discussed black money, what's new?

Road projects, flyovers: A major scandal?

Say no to the Games, else the guilty will escape!

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