#NLPRIMETIME: EPISODE 9
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WE, THE LOST PEOPLE
The controversy stoked by the Republic Day government advertisement – that showed the original Preamble and not the amended one – was as needless as it was artificially generated. It frayed tempers,...
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THE PREAMBLE AD: SMART OR SLY
Let me begin by clarifying what this piece is not about and what it is about. It is not about whether the Preamble to the Constitution should be amended or not, whether it should have been amended in...
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THE RAPE THAT DIDN’T MAKE NEWS
On January 24, Delhi had turned into a fortress for all practical purposes. Eighty thousand cops and 10,000 paramilitary personnel were deployed across the city. The President of the United States of...
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THE GREAT SECULARISM DEBATE
People are worried. They feel their Idea of India is under threat. Some even think the India envisioned by Nehru and Ambedkar may not last a Modi term. And it’s that word to blame again – Secularism....
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BOMBAY VERSUS MUMBAI
I was born in Bangalore but I now reside in Bengaluru. The re-naming of the city had precious little impact on me because Bangalore has always been Bengaluru in Kannada and regardless of how many...
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WHY INDIA’S NUCLEAR POWER IS SURGING
India is on course to double its nuclear power generation capacity to more than 10,000 mega watts (MW) over the next five years (see first table). Generation of nuclear power in India has doubled...
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BEHIND THE VASANT KUNJ CHURCH ATTACK
Delhi Police's investigating team at work. Saint Alphonsa’s Roman Catholic Church A cupboard left open in the Sacristy after the break-in. Freedom of Press? Media inside the church. Located amidst...
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FUNNY BONE TO PICK
Even before I had watched the All India Backchod’s (AIB) Knockout video, which went viral on the internet last week, I had already been subjected to a barrage of opinions on it. One side found it to...
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JE SUIS SHIRIN DALVI
Shirin Dalvi, India’s only woman editor of an Urdu daily, Avadhnama, has found herself amid a controversy that could turn into a lonely legal battle all for carrying a news report on the French...
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THE OH CAPTION! MY CAPTION! CONTEST #9
Fill in the blanks and be part of a Clothesline gag. Enter our photo dialogue contest and you (and your winning dialogue) could be featured in next week’s Clothesline. You wring ‘em clean, and we’ll...
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ASSAM SCRIBE ALLEGES MOLESTATION
Last Saturday, January 31, a woman journalist had gone to the Latasil Police Station in Guwahati on a reporting assignment. According to a complaint that she filed in the same police station later in...
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GUJARAT, NON-UPA STATES HOUSED MOST PROJECTS BLOCKED BY NATARAJAN ENVIRONMENT...
Ms. Natarajan claimed in the letter that she was being unfairly accused of delaying large infrastructure projects in 2013 while she was only carrying out instructions sent to her by Rahul Gandhi,...
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AAP AND BJP VIOLATE POLL CONDUCT AS TV JOURNOS PLAY ALONG
At around 3.45 pm in the afternoon, Union Finance and Information and Broadcasting Minister, Arun Jaitley, accompanied by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) chief ministerial candidate for Delhi,...
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CAUGHT IN THE ACT
It’s likely that at some point in our lives we’ve all passed off someone else’s story as our own. Personalising a third-person account helps make a story more evocative and it’s mostly harmless. There...
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DEREK O’BRIEN BREAKS TIES WITH ABP
In a letter obtained by Newslaundry, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Derek O’Brien gives his reasons for discontinuing his two decade-long association with the Anandabazar Patrika (ABP). The...
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WHO GOT THEIR NUMBERS RIGHT
While the battle for supremacy in the Delhi assembly has been decisively won by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the battle for the title of most accurate exit pollster went to the India News-Axis poll....
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