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Yes Sir, Yes Sir, Three Bags Full

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: July 23, 2008

Commentator after commentator in the Indian media, political inclinations and insinuations notwithstanding, shed copious amounts of reptilian tears over the appearance of naked cash in the floor of the Parliament during the trust vote yesterday. A hallowed shrine, the sanctum sanctotum of Indian politics, was eviscerated, they wailed.

Hogwash.
Indian politics, right from the dark days of [...]

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It would be funny if it wasn’t sad

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: July 15, 2008

They came driven in their own cars to do the needful. The needful were different for the two protagonists of the Nuclear Deal Drama India has witnessed in the past couple of weeks. Prakash Karat, the Communist boss, came to announce the withdrawal of support in a Wagon R (the small car from Maruti Suzuki). [...]

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Easy-con Valley?

Posted by: Subrata Majumdar on: April 23, 2008

The Congress has pitched the daughter of the late Chief Minister Ramakrishna Hegde to fight ex-CM H D Kumaraswamy in the Ramanagaram constituency. The move has nothing to do with promoting women in legislature. Unabashedly the Congress party declared that is was due to astrological reasons! It so transpired that a woman is unlucky for [...]


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