April 29, 2013
Dispassionate opinions, free from regional or political bias, are hard to come by in Andhra Pradesh at a time when tempers are running high over the State’s bifurcation. B. P. R. Vithal has made a...
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April 15, 2013
In the night of December 22, 1949 a small statue of Lord Rama miraculously appeared in the centuries-old Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and transformed for ever the national political discourse. In this...
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February 25, 2013
Bob Woodward on the 2011 summer, when the United States faced default on its debt
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February 19, 2013
A fragmented image of socio-economic realities in Maoist-infected Chhattisgarh, of tales of oppression and resistance, of Government’s strategy to counter armed rebels, emerges through the book, <...
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HYDERABAD,
January 21, 2013
Rahul Gandhi is like a reluctant bride, one step in and one step out of politics. Chidambaram is the most obnoxious, rude and oppressive leader, besides being a public relations disaster. Narendra...
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December 25, 2012
Almost two thirds of the world’s population have experienced colonial rule in one form or another, and the strong imprints of Europe’s imperial stamp can be deciphered with little effort on the co...
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December 10, 2012
This book represents an elusive, but very vital genre of scholarship on Indian politics, which is the interface of politics, policy and regime. Professional economists of rival ideological persuas...
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NEW DELHI,
September 19, 2012
Gurcharan Das makes a case against growing without the State
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September 10, 2012
Towards the end of year 2010, thwarted by the Republican majority in the Senate while seeking approval for the New START Treaty, President Barack Obama concluded that the current formation in Sena...
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July 30, 2012
Living in times where you can ‘dial an expert’ for an opinion on any issue, you may find M.S. Prabhakara’s approach in analysing issues that have gripped the North East a little too meticulous and...
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April 29, 2013
The Congress has relied on strategy rather than on ideology to win power
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March 11, 2013
Pamela Hicks writes of the first three decades of her life as daughter of the Mountbattens
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February 25, 2013
Soon after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, as the heat from the Cold War was abating, the U.S.-led West was warming up to take on another enemy — militant “Islamism.” Incident...
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NEW DELHI,
January 30, 2013
Pavan K. Varma’s “Chanakya’s New Manifesto” creates ripples in the audience at the book launch in the Capital
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January 18, 2013
Pavan K. Varma’s book harks back to Chanakya’s Arthashastra, and its relevance in today’s chaotic world
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KOCHI,
December 19, 2012
1962. Tezpur was a small, sleepy town when Pallatheri Parameswaran Nambudiri joined Assam State Electricity Board as Assistant Engineer. It was his first posting. He had managed to find a room to...
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October 8, 2012
N. Vittal has laced familiar themes with nostalgia, anecdotes, homilies and gossip
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September 10, 2012
Farzana Shaikh’s book is a poor attempt to read religion into Muslim politics
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August 13, 2012
How panic and populism underwrite the crude binaries of U.S. assessments on the rise of China and India
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Hyderabad,
July 26, 2012
The intriguing map of the country on the cover draws you to flip the pages and more so the title ‘Telanganame Andhra Pradesh’, a hot and happening topic to all those living in this state. When jou...
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