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Workers prepare poll campaign material of various parties at a workshop in Bangalore.

Polls, pollsters and politics

It is in the nature of electoral politics that politicians have to eat their words. Not only politicians, but pollsters as well.

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INDIA - APRIL 29: A Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) supporter carries a picture of Indian Prime Minister and BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee after an election rally in Aligarh, India Thursday, April 29, 2004. Vajpayee and his BJP were ousted from power yesterday in an election upset when the nation's 700 million poor voted against his 'India Shining' campaign. (Photo by Amit Bhargava/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A campaign goes awry

Why did the BJP slogans “feel good” and “India shining” flop? Why have they invited such derision and damning denunciation?

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Not a `natural ally'

COLIN POWELL is the first black Secretary of State of the United States. His record of military service is outstanding. He earned worldwide fame durin

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Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf receives a bat with autographs of Indian players from captain Sourav Ganguly, during a meeting in Islamabad on March 17, 2004.

Cricket and diplomacy

Cricket matches between India and Pakistan in the past achieved high levels of bitterness and hostility, and body language on the field was war-like.

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H.Y. Sharada Prasad (right) receiving the degree of Doctor of Literature from Karnataka Governor T.N. Chaturvedi at Karnataka Bhavan in New Delhi on March 3.-R.V. MOORTHY

A man of distinction

H.Y. SHARADA PRASAD will be 80 on April 15, 2004. He is a national treasure - serene, self-aware, sensitive, scholarly, supremely wise, raconteur par

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A friend from France

ON February 13, 2004, the cerebral French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin delivered the Madhavrao Scindia Lecture at the auditorium of the Neh

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A simple man and a great leader

"GENERATIONS to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth." Who said this? Albert Ei

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In the name of Shivaji

PUNE has rightly been recognised as an outstanding home of high learning and scholastic excellence. The Bhandarkar Institute has, in no small measure

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The Rajiv Gandhi Memorial at Sriperumbudur in Kancheepuram district.

Remembering Rajiv Gandhi

The Rajiv Gandhi memorial at Sriperumbudur is a sublime creation and a fitting tribute to a star who illuminated our lives.

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The Mahatma's message

OCTOBER 2, 2003 was the 134th birth anniversary of Gandhiji. The customary and routine functions were held at Rajghat and Gandhi Smrithi in Delhi and

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Lessons not learnt

UNITED NATIONS bashing by the United States continues unabated. Earlier in the year, the U.S. decided to bypass and ignore the U.N. to invade Iraq. Th

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In the name of liberation

AMOS OZ is perhaps the most well-known Israeli novelist. I reproduce some stunning observations made by him. It shows the quality of the man and his v

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