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Analysis: Speaker's actions taint Jaya image

Comment: Lyngdoh's reign of error

Nobody comes out clean in Taj corridor scandal

Some 20 years ago I wrote that there was a better chance of an Indian setting foot on the Moon than of a Bharatiya Janata Party MLA entering the Kerala Assembly.

Comment: Ignorance and bliss

Comment: Challenge before Sonia is growing irrelevance

Comment: CBI, a political puppet?

Comment: Does Sonia's party deserve to be the government we seek?

Tandem polls a good idea, but tackle stability first

Next week is going to be tough for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as the Left Front and the Samajwadi Party join hands to turn Indian diplomacy on its head.

Leave it to the mandarins in the Central Secretariat to take a bad situation and make it worse!

Politicians love to talk of how they and they alone represent the "common man". More often, however, they are busy mouthing the latest gossip spun by urban rumour mills.