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Who is Sri Srinivasan, Obama's 'Supreme Court nominee in waiting'?
, Sri Srinivasan - Mother Jones
The New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin calls Sri Srinivasan, the government lawyer Barack Obama has nominated to the prestigious US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, "the Supreme Court nominee in waiting." But you could also call him a mystery. |
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Gaffe-prone maverick
, Ajit Pawar - Business Standard
On Thursday morning, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar surprised friends and colleagues by calling them up to offer his wishes on the occasion of Gudi Padwa in an uncharacteristically polite tone. It took everyone little time to realise that the minister was trying to rebuild his image that had taken a severe beating after his insensitive comments a few days back. |
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Wannabe CM calls police inefficient; says retail FDI not good for Delhiites
, Arvind Kejriwal - Economic Times
AAP accepts donations from ordinary people, pros and even businessmen as long as those donations are clean, says Kejriwal. |
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The mystery of Jagdish Tytler: High rewards for low behaviour
, Jagdish Tytler - FirstPost
Jagdish Tytler. The very name is a blast from the past, evoking instant memories of murder, mobs, and dead Sikhs. And if you nudge the mind further down memory lane: Emergency and Sanjay Gandhi. Happy times! |
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Google's $100 million man
, Neal Mohan - Business Insider
Two years ago, Twitter was in disarray. On April 14, 2011, Fortune's Jessi Hempel blasted Twitter for failing to launch exciting new products, generate meaningful revenues, or hang on to executive talent.
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Decoding the mind of a leader
, Rahul Gandhi - DNA
By the time you read this, you’d probably know Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s speech by heart. You would have seen him clutching the CII honcho’s hand to show how the Chinese exert pressure, you would have seen him stumbling over his notes to organise his thoughts and you would have read headlines and captions and pages and more pages dedicated to the big message (or the lack of it) in his speech. |
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Little man’s big PM
, Margaret Thatcher - Deccan Chronicle
As an expression, “conviction politician” is much used, abused and misunderstood these days. Some take it to mean a good, principled person, polite to a fault, paying bills and debts in time. That would be a limiting interpretation. A “conviction politician” is not just a principled individual; s/he is a politician who believes in some immutable principles and fights to hell’s gate to defend and uphold them. |
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Chouhan hard sells innovative governance
, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, CM , Madhya Pradesh - Mail Today
When Shivraj Singh Chouhan, 56, took over as the chief minister in November 2005, Madhya Pradesh was in need of a strong leadership. The treasury was empty, basic infrastructure had collapsed and the development indicators were terrible. Today, an altogether different picture of Madhya Pradesh is visible. |
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Credibility is the biggest challenge that India faces
, Narayana Murthy, Founder, Infosys - Economic Times
NR Narayana Murthy, who still solves differential and integral equations, believes that solutions for India lie in deeds, not words. In a rare and exclusive interview with ET, the founder of InfosysBSE 0.67 % said the middle class is seeking outcome-based governance and pointed to Gujarat as an example. |
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The candidate
, Narendra Modi - Asian Age
This piece is in praise of Gujarat’s hero, Narendra Modi. In India, politics is visceral and emotional, not issue-based. Indians can rarely, if ever, appreciate or even concede the qualities of those they don’t agree with. This is one reason our political debates on television are usually: 1) Angry, 2) Boring, 3) Predictable. |
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The most formidable woman in 20th century politics
, Margaret Thatcher - Washington Post
She had the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe. So said Francois Mitterrand, the last serious socialist to lead a major European nation, speaking of Margaret Thatcher, who helped bury socialism as a doctrine of governance. |
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Masterclass in political seduction
, Narendra Modi - Times of India
When a politician comes across as a man you want to hug and confess your problems to, you are in trouble. It's not just that you may feel silly when the moment is over; your vulnerability mirrors your desperation for a father figure. |
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Architect of new age capitalism bids adieu
, Margaret Thatcher - Pioneer
Love her or loathe her, one thing is beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. The Iron Lady who ruled for 11 remarkable years imposed her will on a fractious, rundown nation — breaking the unions, triumphing in a far-off war, and selling off industries at a record pace. She left behind a leaner Government and more prosperous nation by the time a mutiny ousted her from No 10 Downing Street. |
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The Ratan I admire
, Ratan Tata - Economic Times
My wife, Sudha, a vociferous and loyal admirer of JRD, and I form a strong fan club of Ratan. Every meeting I have had with him makes me leave the meeting wishing that he lives very long and that there will be more people like him in the country. His achievements in business are well documented. Let me talk about a few personal anecdotes that bring out his courtesy, decency and humility. I have recounted many of these in other articles of mine on Ratan, perhaps using the same words. |
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UP govt filed false hate speech case
, Varun Gandhi - Times of India
In his first interview since Varun Gandhi became BJP's youngest-ever general secretary in BJP chief Rajnath Singh's team, the 33 year-old MP from Pilibhit talks about his politics to TOI exclusively. |
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Change of role, anyone?
, Smriti Irani - Hindustan Times
When Smriti Irani, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s recently appointed vice president, was still a schoolgirl in Delhi, her parents invited an astrologer to predict their three daughters’ futures. He declared that while her two younger sisters would do all right, “badi ladki ka kuchh nahin hoga.” Stung, Smriti told him, “Check on me ten years later!” |
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'Vadra was used as a shield for other land deals'
, Ashok Khemka, IAS officer, Haryana - Times of India
Well, I don' know what made the CM issue this transfer order just five months after my last transfer. After exposing the land licensing scam, I had been transferred to Haryana Seed Development Corporation as its managing director, a very junior level assignment. Why another transfer? Also, it was executed in a very humiliating manner. |
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How to compete in India
, Stefano Pelle, Vice-President & COO, Perfetti Van Melle Group - Business Standard
Rule No 1 in any expat survival guide is: "Learn the language and local culture". By that yardstick, Stefano Pelle, vice-president and chief operating officer of the Perfetti Van Melle Group, isn't your everyday expat manager. First, he has been in and out of India for 15 years now but has picked up only a handful of Hindi words - the regulation "namaste" and "dhanyavaad" among them. That too, after being married to an Indian for seven years. Worse for me, he shares nothing of the average Indian's passion for food, writes Alokananda Chakraborty. |
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Greatest threat to poor is socialism
, Arthur C Brooks, President, American Enterprise Institute - Mint
Against calls for more stringent regulations to rein in large financial institutions, Arthur C. Brooks , president of Washington DC-based American Enterprise Institute think tank, has been arguing that unsustainable government intervention and crony capitalism were responsible for the 2008 financial meltdown. Brooks, who was in India recently to speak on the “Moral case for capitalism”, spoke in an interview about promoting free enterprise and said increased government regulation wouldn’t help in preventing another financial crisis. |
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The Astronaut who brought samosas into space
, Sunita Williams - WSJ
A pendant of Hindu Lord Ganesha, a copy of Hinduism’s holy book, the Bhagavad Gita, and a box of samosas, are some of the items NASA astronaut Sunita Williams brought with her on expeditions to outer space. Last year, when the American astronaut ventured into space for the second time, she carried a copy of the Upanishads, a Hindu scripture. |
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Did Muslims vote for Modi-led BJP out of fear?
, Asifa Khan & Zafar Sareshwala - Manushi
In the 2012 Gujarat Assembly elections, 31% of Gujarati Muslims voted for Modi led BJP despite media and NGOs launching a high voltage campaign against Modi for being a “divisive” force in Indian politics. The enormous increase in Muslim vote for BJP was dismissed by Modi-Haters, including reputed political scientists , by saying that Muslims had voted for Modi out of fear. Those who hold this view need to hear Asifa Khan of Bharuch who joined the BJP a few weeks before the 2012 election after spending 4 years as the Congress spokesperson in Gujarat. |
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Team is mine, but i took others into confidence
, Rajnath Singh, BJP President - ET
In an exclusive interview to ET, his first since announcing a significant organisational reshuffle at the weekend that virtually anointed the Gujarat chief minister as the BJP's face for the next elections, Rajnath Singh said there was no reason for Kumar's Janata Dal (United) to leave NDA. |
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NSE’s new CEO a music-lover, perfectionist
, Chitra Ramkrishna - Hindustan Times
She loves Carnatic music. She plays the veena in her spare time. Her friends and colleagues know her as a perfectionist. Meet Chitra Ramkrishna, 49, the new managing director and CEO of NSE, the world’s largest stock exchange in terms of trade volumes — and a quiet, self-effacing force in India’s economic reforms. |
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Novelist, screenwriter with satiric voice
, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Indian Express
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, the German-born screenwriter and novelist who, as the writing member of the Merchant Ivory filmmaking team, won two Academy Awards for adaptations of genteel, class-conscious E M Forster novels, died on Wednesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 85. |
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Indian Patent Law will be emulated by many nations
, C Chandrasekaran, Ex-patent Controller General, India - Economic Times
C Chandrasekaran, former patent controller general of India, has keenly followed the Glivec patent case. Chandrasekaran, who headed the patent office when Novartis' patent claim was first struck down, spoke to ET on the crucial section 3(d) of the Indian patent law. |
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