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Tag Archives: Prime Minister

Vijay Mallya

Five News Developments you Missed over the Weekend

Sometimes news isn’t what you normally believe it is. Rather, it is what you want to believe it should be. With classified sources and resources in every corner of the… Read more »

Manmohan Singh

Stop Playing a Babu and Start Being a Political Leader, PM Sir

The Congress-led UPA government’s posturing on The Washington Post article criticising Prime Minister Manmohan Singh brings to mind only question: since when did we start feeling ashamed about what others… Read more »

Manmohan Singh

The Diary of Manmohan Singh in Blackout Daze

I got a bit of time over the last two days to indulge in some thinking and wondering, as electricity, never in ample supply in my part of the world… Read more »

The many faces of Mamata Banerjee

Didi Don’t Preach: Just How Ethical is Mamata’s Own Brand of Politics?

Ms Mamata Banerjee, the quintessential megalomaniac, had hopped on to a plane to New Delhi, believing that she would be the one to determine who would reside at Raisina Hill…. Read more »

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In Didi’s Wonderland, where Words Come Out from the Depth of Truth

Our honourable chief minister Ms Mamata Banerjee has, without a doubt, done a great service to the cartoonist tribe. Can you think of another time when so much newsprint was… Read more »

Mamata Banerjee

Cartoon Conspiracy: In Defence of Didi and how Politics is not a Funny Game

(This a letter we received from a reader who calls him/herself a TMC supporter and wishes to remain anonymous. Since we have no way of verifying his claims, we are… Read more »

The front page of a newspaper the cows can't eat now.

Mad Cow Disease in Maa-Maati Land

Cow is a good animal. Cows give milk and yummy steak. Cows live in herds and masticate newspapers, if given. Cows moo “Maa Maa”, wallow in the “Maati” (soil) and… Read more »

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Cartoon Network in Mamata Land: How Many of Us Face Arrest for the Same Crime?

I had read Soumya Datta’s article (Facebook Users Beware: Every Post you Make, Didi’s Watching) a few months ago. The article talked about Mamata Banerjee looking over Facebook posts against… Read more »

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Cartoon Network in Mamata Land: It isn’t Funny Madam Chief Minister

Ambikesh Mahapatra might have preferred to lie low, being a professor of Chemistry in Kolkata’s renowned Jadavpur University. But for the overtly proactive police in his city, and an overtly… Read more »

Railway budget

Railway Rollbacks, Increased Freight Rates, and Didi’s Crocodile Tears

As the new hiked railway fares (for the privileged classes) come into force from today, I am again reminded of the melodrama over the railway budget. And while much of… Read more »