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From Anna Acolyte to Sheila’s Nemesis
Arvind Kejriwal is not speaking today. It is the eleventh day of his fast, his ‘bijli-paani satyagraha’, to protest against inflated power and water bills that are said to be making the lives of the...
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“Kejriwal Is Not Even on Our Radar”
On a Monday afternoon, the official residence of Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has a stream of visitors, the state’s Public Works Department minister Raj Kumar Chauhan among them. She walks into...
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The Battle for New Delhi
In June, half a year before the Delhi Assembly polls to be held on 4 December, Arvind Kejriwal declared that he would make his electoral debut against the state’s three-time Chief Minister Sheila...
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The Minimum Leader: The Unravelling of Arvind Kejriwal
Arvind Kejriwal’s resume could be kept concise and hilarious: Underdog Extraordinaire. Arvind Kejriwal, Chief Minister of Delhi, is a politician with an obvious appetite for theatrics, and he deserves...
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What’s Going Wrong with Prashant Kishor?
He used to wear tight jeans and T-shirts until last year, when he traded it for the typical neta get-up of spotless white kurta pyjama. Then, as now, he has had an air of self-importance about him. For...
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Back to Mother
AT 10.30 AM on June 6th, the working committee of the Indian National Congress sat for a crucial meeting after seven long months. The last meeting had been called in November 2016 and Congress...
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Ahmed Patel: Man on the Brink
He has been the Sir Galahad of political logistics, an aide of Congress President Sonia Gandhi for well over a decade. Described often as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, as the cliché...
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Indraprastha
AT THE TIME of writing, talk of a cabinet reshuffle- cum-expansion is in the air. Since the Prime Minister sets his own rules, his own timetable in these matters, nobody could have told him to complete...
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Books: Highlights of 2018
NON-FICTIONWHY I AM A HINDU By Shashi Tharoor (Aleph)It starts with an examination of the author’s belief in Hinduism. He discusses those who made major contributions to the essence of the religion. He...
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A Private Figure
FOR DELHITES LIKE me who have spent pretty much all our lives in the capital city, the Delhi of today, in terms of citizen services, is a much improved place from what it was, say, three decades ago. I...
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