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The ending of conversations - Manmohan Singh, Business Standard
In my column on ‘Remembrance of things past’ (December, 2009) I had noted the sadness of aging, with friends lost to the Grim Reaper with whom one could not continue conversations. This week saw another long standing friend felled: Ian Little. This column is in his memory, as not only was he involved with Indian policy debates from the late 1950s...
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I've always stuck to mandate - Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General, India, Economic Times
The boy who never grew up - S Sreesanth, Hindu
I was taken aback by Professor Amartya Sen's comments on Food Bill - Arvind Panagariya, Economic Times
Government has brought the whole industry on its knees - Girish Shirodkar, Mint
From fashion to AirAsia, Chandilya takes a flying leap - Mittu Chandilya, AirAsia India CEO, Financial Express
The Internet destroyed the middle class - Jaron Lanier, Salon
Pakistan’s comeback kid - Nawaz Sharif, Brookings
The man who blew the whistle and walked away with $49 mn - Dinesh Thakur, Business Standard
Most ministers including PM linked with financial scams - Varun Gandhi, Economic Times
We will not allow Kargil, 26/11, terror from Pak soil - Nawaz Sharif, Hindustan Times
‘We have a lot of love for India’ - Nawaz Sharif, Hindu
From die-hard anti-Congressman to Cong CM - Siddaramaiah, CM Karnataka, Indian Express
Trust deficit between Centre, states has reduced on GST - Sushil Kumar Modi, Mint
Raman's run through Bastar, 'the road to government' - Raman Singh, CM Chhattisgarh, Indian Express
‘Run healthcare with digital systems, not mountains of data’ - Kenneth Clarke, British Cabinet Minister & Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy, Business Line
CBI should have statutory status, like EC and CAG - Prakash Singh, ToI
Rich are widely hated in China - John Osburg, Professor, Rochester University, Economic Times
Once was king - Manmohan Singh, Business Standard
Changing his stripes - Nawaz Sharif, Hindustan Times
Diageo's man for emerging markets - CEO designate, Diageo, Business Standard
Some ideological shift was needed - Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, Deccan Chronicle
The force behind Dhrupad’s revival - Zia Fariduddin Dagar, Hindu
Halo on Manmohan Singh doesn't work anymore - Ravi Shankar, Cartoonist, Pioneer
Two contrasting Union ministers from same region, each under a cloud - Pawan Bansal & Ashwani Kumar, Indian Express
India’s being reinvented – we live suspended between worlds - Akash Kapur, Times of India
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Nothing epitomises Congress's oligarchic culture, hinging on a power cabal that centres in a ‘High Command', than disgraced former Union Minister  for Law and Justice Ashwani Kumar's parting statement in his own defence while demitting office. “Whatever the PM and the party High Command thought fit, as a loyal foot soldier, I have done, and I am proud of the fact that I have been a loyal foot soldier of the party”. There is no word about his loyalty to the nation, which, for patriotic Indians, should have precedence over party, Prime Minister and high command. But not in the Congress's scheme of things, which, in the final reckoning, is a matter of perpetuating the Nehru-Gandhi family's hegemony.
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