10 Dec 13

Pehle AAP

Why Aam Aadmi Party should form the government.

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Arvind Kejriwal has lived a dream, but he must slap that alarm clock now and wake up to reality. The Delhi Assembly election results have proved most pollsters except Chankaya wrong. Then again, perhaps it’s to do with the name.

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06 Dec 13

Indira, Jeeps and Blue Books

How Indira Gandhi started a trend by overturning the most inconvenient Supreme Court judgment of them all.

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Jeeps are magical. Marvels of minimalism. The rough bumpy ride, the defiant thrumming, the toppled windshield, flapping canvas, sloshing jerry cans, wind in the hair, dust in the eyes, smouldering cheroot, Lawrence of Arabia, Clint Eastwood, James Dean, Yashpal Kapur…

Yashpal who?

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07 Nov 13

Citizen Ram: In The Family Way

Is The Hindu really breaking from tradition by bringing control of the paper back into the family fold?

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“With The Hindu’s owners deciding to revert to being a family run and edited newspaper, I am resigning from The Hindu with immediate effect.”

                                                                                                                                                                                                               – @svaradarajan, Oct 21, 2013

The recent Twitter resignation of Siddharth Varadarajan, editor of The Hindu, elicited passionate responses of more than 140 characters, most of them loose and many of them belonging to the extended Hindu family.

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