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"Men have died from time to time," Shakespeare wrote, "and worms have eaten them, but not for love." Well, if not for love, have any died for love of office?

Did your grandmother ever tell you the parable of the washerman, the dog, and the donkey? If not, here goes:

Let us begin with Bansur, Sagwara (ST) and Bali before moving to neighbouring Gujarat.

Analysis: Time to drop outdated Nehruvianism

It never rains but that it pours. I am sure the residents of Chennai would testify to that as their city was flooded by unusually heavy rains. But the metaphor holds true for Delhi as well, specifically the Supreme Court.

When was the last time one praised Jayalalithaa for restraint, simultaneously wondering why Chandrababu Naidu went out on a limb?

"The light has gone out of our lives," Jawaharlal Nehru said on January 30, 1948. It has gone out of ours too.

Sonia Gandhi happened to visit Tirupati during her campaign for the 1999 General Election. While in the famous temple town, she chose to go to the famous shrine in the Seven Hills.

Analysis: India's Look East policy blinkered by Taiwan

I had distinctly mixed feelings when I tuned in to watch the India-West India Test at Chennai on the morning of Friday, 18 October. I was sorry to see an exciting match being postponed by several hours.

Analysis: India must abandon muddled foreign policy on Iraq

Last week, I wrote on the Cauveri dispute and of how Karnataka's truculent attitude threatened to strike at the very roots of the federal Union and cast questions on the 'supremacy' of the Supreme Court.