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LetsDiscuss: NATHA NEEDS DENG, NOT DEMOCRACY

Natha is the face of India that none of us wants to see, that none of us wants the world to see, that many of us do not know about, that most who know about want to pretend it does not exist, that those who have managed to escape are thankful that they have and want to forget that it still exists for many.
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LetsDiscuss: KASHMIR: AFTER THE GALE, BACK TO SQUARE ONE

The template for Kashmir has to be radically changed; India is fighting the wrong people. Lessons to learn.
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LetsDiscuss: Caste off comfort of caste

The sudden decision of the government to agree to a limited caste based census that will count the number of OBCs has, not surprisingly, raised a storm, but only a small one considering that a fundamental, irreversible change is going to be unleashed on the people of India.
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LetsDiscuss: MUTHALIK AND TEHELKA: THE BAD AND THE UGLY

Pramod Muthalik is in the news again. But, hang on. The story is not a simple one of the good guys and the bad, both easily identifiable. There is a serious twist here.
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Cricket: Shashi Tharoor: making a 'difference'

Let me say what mainstream media would have screamed had the man involved had not been..
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LetsDiscuss: ROY AND THE ROMANCE OF THE RED ANT CHUTNEY

Arundhati Roy has written another long story,"Walking with the comrades",
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LetsDiscuss: NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HUSAIN AND WESTERGAARD

Often the question asked pompously by self-designated "liberals" is: where does "freedom of expression" end and religious sentiment start?
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LetsDiscuss: TWITTER WARS: OLD MEDIA VS NEW

There is a new watch dog in town. Its bark may be small but its bite is big. 140 characters can and do pack a real punch, particularly
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LetsDiscuss: EAGLE FALTERS, DRAGON HISSES, ELEPHANT SLEEPS

When Mukesh Ambani said a few days back that "whatever had to be done in the West, has been done"..
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LetsDiscuss: NEW MEDIA: IS CONGRESS REALLY A 'LOSER' ALREADY?

Vir Sanghvi has written an interesting column in the Hindustan Times on some of his findings about netizens, based on his experience on Twitter and his own website
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LetsDiscuss: Should we have tests for ministers?

There is work but no jobs...In the meanwhile a few UPA Ministers have jobs but no work story
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LetsDiscuss: Mr Pachauri, the muck is in your face

What a comedown for a man who received the Nobel Peace Prize a couple of years back for his efforts "to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change
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LetsDiscuss: IS UP GOING THE CONGRESS WAY?

Whichever way one looks at it, the one deduction that cannot be escaped is that everything is beginning to
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LetsDiscuss: FAIL THE NATION, GET REWARDED FOR 'LOYALTY'

Not only have the guilty men of 26/11 and more been rewarded for their sycophancy, even...
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