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Haima Deshpande

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Art & Culture
Not the Typical Saas-Bahu Serial Writer

Maharashtra Election Commissioner Neela Satyanarayan has the most unusual of hobbies.

27 August 2010
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India
The Woman in Kasab’s Life

Even advocate Farhana Shah’s husband does not like her defending the terrorist.

20 August 2010
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India
Modi’s Troubles at Home

If the Gujarat CM has watched the arrest of his deputy home minister with a sense of personal injury and alarm, it’s not without reason.

30 July 2010
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India
To Skewer the Admission Skew

Maharashtra is doing its utmost to unfairly favour its own state board students for college admissions. Stop this nonsense.

02 July 2010
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India
Handshake Muck Rake

The Congress’ backroom deals with Raj Thackeray’s MNS in Maharashtra has put the grand old party in a fix in faraway Bihar.

24 June 2010
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India
Census Sets OBC Politics Astir

In Maharashtra, old foes join hands across an ideological divide to make the most of a chance to consolidate Other Backward Caste votes.

04 June 2010
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Real India
The Ramnaam Bank

What you deposit here are notebooks filled with the names of divinities.

04 June 2010
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India
The Raj-Uddhav Snuggle Fest

Efforts to re-unite Mumbai’s Thackeray cousins are beginning to fructify, thanks partly to a people’s campaign aimed at making them see political logic.

27 May 2010
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India
Prodigal Daughters

The IPL scandal’s impact on the NCP could eventually reach ballot boxes. For now, it is Poorna Patel and Supriya Sule who are squirming.

29 April 2010
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India
The Mahajans

One of India’s most powerful politicians is killed by his brother. Son goes on drug orgy, friend dies. Killer brother dies in jail. Now son gets married on reality TV. Here is a family that is stranger than fiction.

11 March 2010

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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