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Minhaz Merchant is the biographer of Rajiv Gandhi and Aditya Birla and author of The New Clash of Civilizations (Rupa, 2014). He is founder of Sterling Newspapers Pvt. Ltd. which was acquired by the Indian Express group
Modi will have an opportunity to reset the India-Russia relationship when he travels to St. Petersburg
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Winning elections is a science; good governance is an art. Modi has mastered the first in the past three years...
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By bombing Syria, upbraiding Vladimir Putin’s client Bashar al-Assad and threatening Russia with sanctions, Donald Trump has taken the sting out of the Democrats’ campaign
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The New York Times is horrified that a Hindu monk can lead a state. It should look inwards. The inflammatory, ultra-conservative rhetoric of some of America's Christian evangelists in the Republican party make Adityanath look positively secular in contrast
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By choosing 44-year-old, five-time Gorakhpur MP Yogi Adityanath (a Thakur) as Chief Minister, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has put politics first: if anyone can deliver UP’s 80 Lok Sabha seats in 2019 it is Adityanath
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Murthy’s complaint against the Infosys board and Sikka isn’t of course, about performance... the numbers show that Sikka has turned infosys around
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Stents represent the tip of the iceberg: over-charging has become endemic in private hospitals
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There are two arrows left in the finance minister’s quiver... the huge amount of black money deposited... (and) the goods and services tax
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There are state polls in 2018... the road to Delhi in 2019 will thus pass through not only Lucknow but Ahmedabad, Bhopal, Raipur and Jaipur
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Chidambaram and Manmohan Singh's assessment of the economic impact of withdrawal of high denomination bank notes was wrong
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