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BJP is not doing what Congress did then
The article titled “Congress did it then, BJP now” in the column Point of View by veteran journalist TJS George (SOM dated Aug. 20) should be an eye-opener for all those who…
21 Aug 2019 · 3 min read
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Pet Talk
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains how taking a bath could be stressful for a guinea pig and more By Maneka Gandhi Is it alright to let my young children play…
21 Aug 2019 · 7 min read
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Congress did it then, bjp now
By T.J.S. George The Congress went dictatorial when Democracy was aglow with its initial patriotic zeal and Jawaharlal Nehru was an inspirational figure. Yet, Nehru became a silent participant in the molestation…
20 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Modi’s Razor’s Edge: Let us support Family Planning Campaign
Today, from the ramparts of the Red Fort, I want to address the issue of population explosion in the country. Parents in India now need to give a serious thought to whether…
19 Aug 2019 · 6 min read
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Chhota Parivar Sukhi Parivar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave his customary Independence Day speech on Aug. 15 and there were no surprise announcements. But what surprised many is that the PM’s sharpest critic, senior Congress leader…
17 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Flooded Resorts and Foolhardy Tourists
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Even as we are going through a very grim and devastating flood situation, we are reading many disturbing reports of tourists being stranded in flooded resorts…
16 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
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Right Intentions, Wrong Steps
By T.J.S. George When the makers of our Constitution used the term 'India that is Bharat,' the implication was that the cultural strength of ancient Bharat would energise the modernistic thrust of…
13 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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How to cure our officials from MAFA disease?
You are warned. These heritage buildings will collapse ! It seems our Government officials are suffering from a disease called MAFA. An abbreviation, acronym for an official mindset of Indian bureaucrats coined…
12 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Leadership is Risky Business
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam Traditional thinking associates leadership with authority and it is intuitively interpreted as having the power to lead people and organisations to bring about the change that one desires.…
12 Aug 2019 · 6 min read
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Finally, from Kashmir to Cape Comorin
Kashmir is no more the special one. But it remains so for the Congress Party and Pakistan. And why not? Kashmir has been used and misused for politics both within India and…
10 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
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Has Modi found Final Solution to Kashmir ?
Do we need a Holocaust Museum? The morning of Monday, 5th August, 2019 will be remembered as the Red Letter Day, as the historic day of Independent India. If you wonder why,…
9 Aug 2019 · 7 min read
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Sympathy - no — Understanding - yes
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC At a fund-raising dinner for a school that serves children with learning disability, the father of one of the students delivered a speech that would…
8 Aug 2019 · 5 min read
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Pet Talk: August 7, 2019
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka explains about the effects of alcohol on dogs and moths’ reaction to light By Maneka Gandhi Recently a dog became famous all over social media for…
7 Aug 2019 · 7 min read
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India, China, Chanakyas and Vaastu
China expressed its scornfulness openly after a visit to Beijing in mid 2018 by Ram Madhav, considered a Chanakya by the BJP establishment for unknown reasons. He is famous for making the…
6 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Strength is Life, Weakness is Death
The death of V.G. Siddhartha, Founder of Cafe Coffee Day (CCD), shocked everyone but the way he died was what made it disturbing, sombre and sad. Now it has been assumed that…
3 Aug 2019 · 6 min read
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A Sad and Needless Death !
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I feel that in the sad and untimely death of V.G. Siddhartha, we have lost a very dignified and respectable man who was much loved and…
2 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Kanchi Experience: Atthi Varadar Perumal
By N.K.A. Ballal, Retd. Sr. Vice-President, ITDC Last week, I had the privilege of visiting Kanchipuram with my better half. The magnet, of course, was to see the famous “Atthi Varadar,” who…
1 Aug 2019 · 4 min read
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Tale of three business Tycoons
What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t invent with your tongue.—Jewish Proverb While writing about V.G. Siddhartha, the Big Boss of the omnipresent Cafe Coffee Day with its signature logo of…
31 Jul 2019 · 8 min read
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Pet Talk
In this week’s Pet Talk, Maneka tells about keeping rabbits as pets, its diet, life span and health care. By Maneka Gandhi Do rabbits make good pets? Rabbits have strikingly distinctive personalities.…
31 Jul 2019 · 7 min read
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Remembering Coffee Day Siddhartha at Vienna
This morning as soon as the news broke about the Coffee Day King V.G. Siddhartha’s disappearance at the bridge of Nethravathi River near Ullal, my wife came running to me to break…
30 Jul 2019 · 3 min read
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And now, be ready to get smashed
By T.J.S. George The noose is tightening around the freedoms that have kept India going. The Right to Information Act, as the very name suggests, was a pillar of democracy. It has…
30 Jul 2019 · 4 min read
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Leading to Mobilise…
By Dr. R. Balasubramaniam When one reads the several tweets that are flooding the social media space about the ongoing political drama in the State of Karnataka, one worries on how people…
29 Jul 2019 · 6 min read
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Yeddy won the BATTLE but... Siddu WON the war
B. S. Yediyurappa has been sworn-in a fourth time as CM but can he complete his term this time at least? To begin with, he has to win the Trust Vote on…
27 Jul 2019 · 4 min read
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Some Roadside Ramblings!
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD It was reported in the press very recently that our Government that existed technically until two days ago was thinking of building a median with Jersey…
26 Jul 2019 · 5 min read