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Man of the Match

VS Achuthanandan may have ended up on the losing side, but he made the Left look respectable even in defeat.

Raja Rings Home

Jayalalithaa ran a campaign focused aggressively on that name. To a thunderous response.

Korechhi, Lodechhi, Jeetechhi

How Mamata Banerjee became the new Left in West Bengal

Maya’s land grab, Rahul’s bike ride

A chief minister loses the plot in Uttar Pradesh. A challenger grabs the opportunity. But this ought to be about a fair deal for farmers, not the 2012 polls

Why Politics Matters

Ideas do not count for much. You might hate this but you better lump it. For it really is the will of the people. Of those who count, not the ones we hear in TV studios. Not People Like Us

Needed: Web Surfers, Not Sufferers

Perceptions that the blind don’t use computers keep websites inaccessible to them

Sai Baba and My Time at Russian Playboy

For my appointment to the sexiest job in Moscow, I had the godman to thank. So too, perhaps, for my stint being cut short

Kerala versus Endosulfan

How the state made the Indian Government fall in line with a global ban on endosulfan

Strange Love

The Indian Government has completely smothered the rights of its citizens in the interests of the nuclear industry

Brown Guy in the Dock

As with the Radia Tapes in India’s 2G scam, wiretapped voices have played the starring role in the biggest case of insider trading by a hedge fund in US history. An inside ring view of the trial and American reactions to it

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