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India’s Marxist veteran looks back with pride

CALCUTTA, India, June 15 (Reuter) – The leader of the world’s oldest democratically elected communist government looked back on his 20 years in power and…

Civil War

UNION Home Minister Prakash Chand Sethi has elevated the art of governance to a fine degree of pettifoggery Political interference in the bureaucracy is not…

Japanese says Indian bureaucracy very “inflexible”

CALCUTTA’S INDIANS TAKE ELECTIONS IN STRIDE

26 KILLED ON SECOND DAY OF INDIA’S GENERAL ELECTION

India aims to grant autonomy to state-owned media

Marxist says one-party rule in India is “finished”

I have to follow capitalism: Buddha

IT IS like being thrown about in an ideological cocktail shaker. You get off a gleaming passenger jet and drive over a soaring expressway to…

THE NORTH-EAST- 40TH ANIVERSARY

The guns are yet to fall silent in the North-east but in places where development has made an inroad, peace has prevailed. Only by bringing…

BUREAUCRACY-THE POWER THAT BE

All private secretaries to Union ministers are equal, but S.R. Bhatia is more equal. Bhatia is the private secretary to Prakash Chand Sethi, the Union…

GUJRAT-HURRICANE HAVOC

It was a visitation of grief and destruction, a cruel twist to the suffering Gujarat was already shrouded in. Meteorologists first noticed the brewing cyclone…

FINDING A VOICE

Politics cinema, like the new wave of the mid-’70s, has long acquired a pejorative meaning in India. At most, a political film that catches the…