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The evolution of shame -
Santosh Desai, Times of India
'Raja has conquered Tihar jail' reportedly read some slogans on T-shirts worn by his celebrating supporters on his return to Chennai after spending 15 months in jail. To see his return from detention on charges of massive corruption as the return of a conquering hero requires a special kind of ability, one that does not seem in short supply today. Increasingly, corruption charges do not seem to carry a social taint, and even criminals convicted of more heinous crimes, people like SPS Rathore (of the Ruchika case notoriety) or Manu Sharma carry themselves with a swagger when seen in public.
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Making sense of Premier Li Keqiang’s India tour -
Anil K Gupta & Haiyan Wang, Economic Times
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A Chinese lullaby -
KC Singh, Asian Age
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IPL crisis: N. Srinivasan and Rajiv Shukla must go -
Indian Express
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Drift & Rift, Sonia & PM -
Abheek Barman, Economic Times
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Mission Modi -
Hindu
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Strategic pincer & Trojan horses -
Bharat Karnad, Asian Age
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A lost decade -
Mint
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Stop appeasing the dragon -
Pravin Sawhney, Pioneer
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Himalayan blunder to Himalayan handshake -
Claude Arpi, Pioneer
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Of future shocks and global complexities -
Pratip Kar, Business Standard
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Self-Serving Report -
Times of India
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Why the Sonia-Manmohan dual power centre hasn't worked -
Minhaz Merchant, Times of India
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The law and short of it -
Chakshu Roy, Indian Express
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DBT’s LPG test -
Santosh Tiwari, Financial Express
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Bad Apple? -
Financial Express
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After four years of UPA 2, the India story looks bleak -
Venky Vembu, FirstPost
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Vinod Rai brought credibility to CAG’s office -
Pioneer
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Uniform national licences in telecom are overdue -
Business Standard
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Watching the watchmen -
Arghya Sengupta, Hindu
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Underperforming even in good times -
Arvind Subramanian, Business Standard
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Amartya Sen is wrong in his claim that delay in Food Bill killing a thousand every week -
Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar, Economic Times
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Birthday bumps -
Indian Express
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The Li effect: India and China have acknowledged their differences, a start towards resolving them -
Times of India
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A legit silence -
Fali S Nariman, Asian Age
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Why China’s riches won’t bring it freedom -
Pankaj Mishra, EconomicTimes
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 The UPA 2 government was conceived in corruption – and never really recovered from that taint. Right from the day the election results came in, the back-channel negotiations began for the reappointment of A Raja as Telecom Minister to advance the interests of certain telecom majors (in return for illegal gratification). It was an enterprise which set the stage for India’s biggest corruption scandal and virtually set the political tone for the rest of the four years. As subsequent exposes have established, Manmohan Singh and other key Ministers knew full well that mischief was afoot, but pointedly looked the other way. That was the beginning of the slide, and the UPA government in general – and Manmohan Singh in particular – was mortally wounded from that episode. But rather than press ahead with remedial action, the government slid further into the cesspool of corruption.
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Split with Nitish will only boost BJP in Bihar -
K Balakrishnan, LensOnNews
WITH THE BJP seemingly decided on projecting Narendra Modi as its PM candidate and its close ally Nitish Kumar of JD(U) equally firm in his opposition to the idea, a split in the NDA alliance looks inevitable; most observers think it’s not a question of if, but when. |
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