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Madhavankutty Pillai

Madhavankutty Pillai has no specialisations whatsoever. He is among the last of the generalists. And also Open chief of bureau, Mumbai  

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Prisoner of Politics

Kejriwal and the joy of going to jail

22 May 2014
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Books
The man who wrote a poem on a non-meeting

Ranjit Hoskote says anything can be good material for poetry if you can make it work

16 May 2014
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Salman and the agony of waiting

If Salman’s indeed guilty, then his best option would have been to take the punishment early enough

08 May 2014
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The Thing about Saints

And the miracles one must perform to become one

02 May 2014
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The uranium itch and other maladies in Seemandhra

The author travels through the strongholds of the YSR Congress chief where violence is a casual state of being. Will Jagan Mohan Reddy have his revenge?

02 May 2014
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The Absent Context

Shazia Ilmi and the perils of the hidden camera

25 April 2014
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India
A sense of betrayal, a whiff of hope

From Sonia Gandhi’s 13-minute stump speech to K Chandrashekar Rao’s nose which is more admirable than his words. Madhavankutty Pillai travels through a divided land and realises that the future of Telangana is hostage to populism and opportunism

25 April 2014
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Skewed Logic, Old Invective and Double Trouble

LK Advani discourages abstinence, Raj Thackeray scapes an old goat and Abu Azmi asks people to vote twice

24 April 2014
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Action Replays

The déjà vu around the fall and rise of BCCI administrators

21 April 2014
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Corruption, Riots and Immortality

Listening to the claims of Manmohan Singh, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Karunanidhi

14 April 2014

Authors

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 president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

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

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

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