gautam chintamani

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The Reading List
For the week of 12 July Understanding Power If you ever wondered how Indian politics became dirty then Nayantara Sahgal's Indira Gandhi: Tryst with Power is the book for you. There are passages in the book that could sound true for many things that happened during the 10-year UPA regime. Things such...
Posted on 12 July 2014 | 2:11 pm
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Whose glass is it anyway?
There couldn't be a better poster boy for optimism than yours truly. Me of the lived-my-school-life-so-democratically-that-I-failed-to-excel-at-any-one-specific-thing or aimlessly-picking-up-a-course-I-had-no-interest-in-and-then-sleepwalking-through-college and what-do-I-need-a-professional-course-...
Posted on 24 March 2014 | 4:28 pm
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Who Got the Power?
A leading Indian daily has come with this its list of 100 Most Powerful Indians and the first few names are hardly surprising. The publication didn't specify the methodology applied to come up with the list, but was kind enough to proffer some dots that could be joined. You see Mr. Narendra Modi (#1...
Posted on 13 March 2014 | 11:29 am
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