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Engaging India, again
, Strobe Talbott - Business Standard
Strobe Talbott has chosen an awful place for this meeting. It's the tea lounge off the ornate reception area at the Taj Mahal hotel in New Delhi, so noisy even Business Standard's eye-catchingly antediluvian recorder captures every loud conversation, laugh, cough, sneeze and tinkle of crockery, an intrusive background that makes concentration difficult. |
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The man behind the Saradha Group
, Sudipta Sen, Chairman & managing director - Business Standard
Businessmen love their pictures next to their message on brochures and websites. The message of Sudipta Sen, the disgraced chairman & managing director of the Saradha group, on his website comes from an empty chair. "Saradha Group has brought a new renaissance," the thought bubble says. Sen despised being photographed, so that he couldn't be easily identified when the going got rough. |
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There’s no delete button on the Internet
, Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen, Google - Mint
The Internet is among the few things humans have built that they don’t really understand, say Google Inc. executive chairman Eric Schmidt and Google Ideas director Jared Cohen in their new book, The New Digital Age, released on 23 April. But the world’s largest ungoverned space, the Internet, also faces the danger of being Balkanized, with governments selectively shutting out people from accessing information they consider counterproductive, the authors caution. |
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The day the music died
, Shamshad Begum - Business Line
A couple of years ago, the best singer in my close circle of friends, who also has a deep understanding of different genres of music as well, heard Shamshad Begum’s Kajra mohabbatwala akhiyon mein aisa dala on my iPod, and started dancing to the music. Enthralled, she said this song could give a run for its money to Kajrare kajrare tere kale kale naina, made so famous by Amitabh Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai in Bunty aur Babli.
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Deconstructing Nitish
, Nitish Kumar, Bihar CM - Business Standard
Let's try to figure this out: friction between Nitish Kumar and the Bharatiya Janata Party has reached breaking point, the Congress is therefore warming up to him, and Lalu Prasad and he are bitter rivals. The narrative from the past reads like this: Janata Dal (United), Nitish's party, has had an alliance with BJP for several years; Nitish has grown up on a strong anti-Congress diet (till last year, he would badmouth the party at every forum, and call it mother of corruption, inflation and unequal growth in the country), and he was once a close friend of Lalu Prasad. |
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'Only to help the poor and the needy'
, Sudipta Sen, Chairman, Saradha group - BusinessStandard
"To err is human. One must not take that into account. It is harmful for oneself. One gets into the habit of finding fault," Saradamani Mukhopadhyay, better known as Sarada Devi or Maa Sarada, had said. But even in her wildest imaginations-the spiritual leader, who was Ramakrishna Paramhansa's wife-must not have thought that Sudipta Sen, the chairman of the Saradha group, which has allegedly defrauded thousands of depositors, would take her words so seriously. |
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A brave judge
, Justice JS Verma - Indian Express
Prior to his elevation to the Supreme Court, I did not know Justice J.S. Verma. Nor had I had any occasion to appear before him. I knew of his reputation as a brave judge who discharged his judicial functions fearlessly during the June 1975 Emergency. |
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The man who flew through all storms
, Naresh Goyal - Times of India
Sixty-three-year old Naresh Goyal, founder chairman of India's second largest airline by market share Jet Airways, has been at the forefront of the country's open skies policy. Back in the early 90s when the Indian government opened up the skies to private air operators, Goyal — along with big industrialists such as Subrata Roy, S K Modi and Thakiyudeen Wahid — jumped in the fray and gave travellers a new experience in domestic air travel. |
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'Why should allies interfere in BJP's choice of PM candidate?'
, Sukhbir Singh Badal, Punjab Deputy CM - Indian Express
Unlike the JD(U) which has sought a "secular" prime ministerial candidate, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) is willing to support whoever the BJP selects. Speaking at the Express Adda organised in Mumbai on Tuesday, Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said, "BJP is the largest party of the NDA and it is their right to decide who the prime ministerial candidate should be. Why should the allies interfere?" |
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He was always obsessed with hitting boundaries as he didn’t fancy running
, Chris Gayle - Indian Express
Like everyone else in the world, I too was awestruck by the incredible display of power-hitting that Chris Gayle unleashed in Bangalore today. It's a great achievement, setting two massive records in T20 cricket, the highest score and the fastest century off just 30 balls. Congratulations to him. |
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To my guru, with love
, Lalgudi Jayaraman - Hindu
It was one such harsh Madras summer. In the shade of the rich canopy on Venkatnarayana Road, a friend and I, both a little over 10 at that time, stood in eager anticipation. With us was Lalgudi sir, clad in a sparkling white dhoti folded up to his knee and a white half-sleeve khadi shirt. He was carefully choosing mangoes ripe enough to eat the very same day. With him was his wife Rajalakshmi. |
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PM, Sonia responsible for 'damaging' JPC
, Yashwant Sinha - Business Line
he draft report of the Joint Parliamentary Committee has created a political storm with the opposition parties terming it as a ‘Congress’ report. Business Line caught up with Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party leader and member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on spectrum allocations, Yashwant Sinha. |
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I've learnt to question why things are the way they are
, Raj Chetty - Times of India
Harvard economist Raj Chetty recently won the John Bates Clark Medal, often called 'the baby Nobel'. Regarded as one of the world's finest young economists, the Indian-born Chetty spoke with Srijana Mitra Das about why kindergarten teachers impact our lives, how states can save themselves some funds — and how individuals don't always make purely rational economic choices. |
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The brothers Tsarnaev
, Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnev - Hindustan Times
Mohammad Atta and the 18 hijackers were strangers to the US. The Tsarnaev brothers weren't. They grew up in this country and had many friends and relatives here. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, the younger brother, was an American citizen, read the oath of allegiance on September 11, 2012, on the anniversary of a day that changed the US. |
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Off the beaten track, and in a pickle
, Ashwani Kumar - Business Standard
The meeting between Law Minister Ashwani Kumar and a team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers took place in early March. Whether the meeting took place in his office or residence is not clear. The issue was the review of the status report on the coal blocks allotment scam to be submitted to the Supreme Court. |
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Steady rise, sudden death
, Deepak Bhardwaj - Mint
A wealthy businessman shot in his own hotel complex; a father and son competing for love and money; an opportunistic lawyer with political ambitions; a power-hungry Swami on the run from the law. If the increasingly sensational details released by the Delhi police, in their investigation into the murder of Deepak Bhardwaj, are to be believed, it’s a saga straight out of a Bollywood B-movie. |
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The arrogance of Pawar, the baron-politician…
, Ajit Pawar - FirstPost
In the 1970s, Marathi cinema threw up a comedian in Dada Kondke who went onto create history by churning out the maximum number of silver jubilee films in a row. The humour was crass, it was at times vulgar, but Kondke got away with it because of cinematic licence. Public life offers no such freedom. |
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Why Sharad Pawar hasn’t given up on his hunt for big power
, Sharad Pawar, Agriculture Minister - Economic Times
For Sharad Pawar, politics has been a 24x7 job for about half a century now. Neither political setbacks nor physical illnesses have affected his verve, versatility or his trademark multitasking style of functioning.
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India is the only country where Muslims exert influence without fear
, Tarek Fatah - Times of India
Tarek Fatah is a Canadian writer and advocate of a progressive and liberal Muslim identity. Speaking with Aarti Tikoo Singh, Fatah discussed his emphasis on Muslims fighting tyranny, why left-wing groups are often wrong in assessing Islamic movements — and how Indian Muslims are uniquely placed to challenge repression. |
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Prime Minister must be secular, not just popular
, Sharad Pawar, Agriculture Minister - Economic Times
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar has said a person aspiring to be prime minister should be secular, open-minded and liberal, and being popular is not the only criterion for the job, implicitly questioning the suitability of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the nation's top executive position. |
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Could Hillary Clinton be America’s Margaret Thatcher?
, Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State - Bloomberg
Who thought that in stuffy old England in the 1980s a woman could act like a man and thrive, but here in the New World, Hillary Clinton still has to watch her p’s and q’s in 2013? Margaret Thatcher didn’t change a hair, hedge a bet or trim a sail. She never had to be told to lean in because she never leaned back. |
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We want tradition of NDA to be followed
, Sharad Yadav, President, JD(U) - Business Standard
You say the BJP is an old friend but you have given it a deadline to name the Prime Ministerial candidate. Is there friendship left in the NDA? Why do you think friendship is not there anymore? We have a long standing alliance and we have given BJP leadership a lot of time to decide on their future course of action.
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Trying to lead the party of growth
, Bobby Jindal - Economist
“Balancing our government’s books is not what matters most.” So Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, declared last month to a roomful of conservative activists bent on balancing the government’s books. Although curbing America’s huge deficits was important, Mr Jindal continued, the Republican Party can revive its electoral fortunes only by telling voters what it can do for them, not what it plans to take away. The party should talk about fostering small business, giving parents more power over their children’s schooling, simplifying the tax code. “We must not become the party of austerity; we must become the party of growth,” he concluded. |
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Most loved villain ever
, Pran Sikand - Pioneer
It was not an empty boast: “Is ilaaqe mein naye aaye ho sahab?... varna Sher Khan ko kaun nahin jaanta”. The legendary ‘villain of the millennium' Pran has had a marathon six-decade career in Hindi cinema, and he is one of the most celebrated actors of the industry. While the world, at least this part of the sub-continent, has been long familiar with the overwhelming presence of Sher Khan on silver screen, it has taken the Government almost that long to acknowledge the stature of veteran actor Pran Krishan Sikand. |
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PB Srinivas enthralled music lovers for over five decades
, PB Srinivas - DNA
Known for belting out hundreds of hit songs, veteran playback singer PB Srinivas carved a niche for himself in the music world with his lilting voice and enthralled fans for over five decades. |
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