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Women's bill should lead on to real political reform
THE passage of the women’s reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha has a number of plus pints. For one, it puts to rest the lingering suspicion that...
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Good riddance! Husain is no dervish
Good Riddance! Whosane... at 95, sane or senile? Bare-foot he was born, to lay bare the soul with a stroke of brush, destined to be buried bare-foot with the...
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You could title it ‘The Hurt Shocker’. That sums up what happened to the women’s Bill on Monday even as The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow’s unflinching film on...
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Jurassic Park has won the skirmish, not the war. When Mulayam Singh, Lalu Prasad and their cohorts turned the Rajya Sabha discussion on the women's Bill into a...
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Surprised? Not really. Angry? Quite. About the inability to push the Women's Bill in a single day. Why? Because they could do as many as 10, including their...
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IIM-Ahmedabad's retrograde move
The recent announcement by the IIM-Ahmedabad's admissions committee on not admitting students with less than 70 per cent marks in school board exams to the...
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Many of us knew of Arthur Andersen, the global consulting firm. But when it broke up and morphed into Accenture, not many made the exact connection. The...
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Be modern, be 'civil' to domestic servants
A hundred years ago, according to a recent book, domestic servants constituted Britain's largest source of employment. That simple statistic reveals, better...
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Can't be in Husain's shoes… he doesn't wear them
Nobody can ever be in M F Husain’s shoes, mainly because he doesn’t wear them. Perhaps that’s where it starts — at Husainsaab’s unshod feet. Most of his...
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The district of Morena has connotations like no other place in India. To many people, particularly old-timers, the very mention of the place brings to mind...
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