By T.J.S. George Winston Churchill told us that it wasn't polite to refer to lies as lies, that we should be cultured enough to call them terminological inexactitudes. But such phraseological definitudes…
By T.J.S. George
Winston Churchill told us that it wasn't polite to refer to lies as lies, that we should be cultured enough to call them terminological inexactitudes. But such phraseological definitudes do not apply to party manifestos in India's hit-and-run democracy. BJP Spokesmen call Congress manifesto a pack of lies and Congressmen describe BJP manifesto as a field of falsities. Both are right. The only question is: Will a double dose of lies trick the Indian voter?
India seems to have developed a peculiar relationship with humour. We are confused about what comedy actually is. Every offensive remark is treated as either a national crisis or a Constitutional issue.…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD A small news item buried deep inside my newspaper caught my eye today. It said that the National Medical Commission (NMC), the body that governs and…
For years, D.K. Shivakumar was the eternal bridesmaid of Karnataka politics. He was always close to power, always indispensable to the Congress party, but never quite the chosen one. Now, at last,…
