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Cong leaders love their chains
One of the most abiding imageries registered on my mind is a scene from V. Shantaram’s Do aankhen baarah haath....
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 May 2016, 02:18Nehru is dead, long live Nehru
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always appeared to a most vehement critic of Nehru and the Nehru Consensus. This appearance...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 29 May 2016, 01:51Second year, eleventh hour
A year ago, I called Narendra Modi’s government first year in office as “a big disappointment” (https://thehinduchronicle.com/2015/05/modi-s-one-year-a-big-disappointment/). Today, two years...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 27 May 2016, 12:34Not all Cong losses are BJP gains
The Left wins and loses, the Right wins and loses, regional parties win and win, the Congress loses, loses, loses,...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 20 May 2016, 01:24Congress’ rotten core
The clock is ticking for the Congress. How it fares will be known on May 19 but if the exit...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 17 May 2016, 09:28No sushasan in Bihar
The Aditya Sachdeva murder has not only exposed the perversity of the unruly son of an unsavory politician couple but...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 13 May 2016, 01:29With friends like Jaitley and Shah, Modi needs no enemies
The controversy surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational qualification highlights, for the nth time, the growing spite and flippancy in...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 11 May 2016, 12:12Indian scientist awarded Rs 14.7-cr grant
An Indian scientist has been awarded a grant of Singapore dollars 3 million (about Rs 14.7 crore) by the National...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 10 May 2016, 09:53Congress’ save family march
The lady doth protest too much. As also her son and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and everybody else in the...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 07 May 2016, 01:09Govt puts Cong on defence on AW deal
Long after Adam Smith mentioned about an “invisible hand” to build his case for free market, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar...
Read More By :Ravi Shanker Kapoor 05 May 2016, 12:27