In the end, Manmohan changed India for the better. He did more than any prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to transform our country with kindness, honesty, compassion, and integrity.

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Vir Sanghvi is the best-known Indian journalist of his generation. His career straddles print, television, books and now, new media. Vir Sanghvi was born in London in 1956 and educated at Mayo College ...

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But this has been his best year yet, with the success of Papa’s Bombay, a small counter-seating restaurant above Veronica’s, which is the hardest booking in Mumbai and may also have the best, most ...

The tragic deaths in Sambhal and the latest crackpot campaign to claim the Dargah in Ajmer on behalf of Hindu communalism bring back many uncomfortable memories. In a sense, it all started with LK ...

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Your guess is as good as mine. But at least it keeps politics in the Phantom zone where the current reality never intrudes and all distractions that occupy the general public are more than welcome.

Have you been on a diet lately? Have you bought a diet book? Gone to see a “weight loss consultant“? Watched a diet video? Starved yourself for 18 hours because you are on an intermittent fasting diet ...