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Mitali Saran

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Can EC see us through a free and fair election?
Rediff.com18 Apr 2019

Can the Election Commission step up to the plate and exert its Constitutional powers...

Elections and the feeling of deja vu
Rediff.com4 Apr 2019

'The great wheel of democracy has turned full circle, and it feels just like being back...

Kashmiris are our countrymen, not the enemy
Rediff.com6 Mar 2019

'We cannot win peace among our people by treating them like the enemy,' says Mitali Saran.

The 2019 poll is a special challenge
Rediff.com9 Feb 2019

'The Republic is currently captained and crewed by people who seem interested in the...

Met the 'Department of Big Moves'?
Rediff.com22 Jan 2019

This whirlwind of activity only confirms that rushing around creating an impression of...

For whom the bell trolls
Rediff.com6 Jan 2019

'Some semi-literate lunkhead tweeting at Rs 2 per tweet from a dingy basement in...

What Rahul must be careful about
Rediff.com30 Dec 2018

'The 2019 battle is a battle for the kind of India that we want to live in.' The...

Sardar Patel doesn't need your help, Mr Modi. You need his
Rediff.com24 Nov 2018

'Maybe, if Mr Modi can fire over Patel's gigantic shoulder, people will start to think...

#MeToo: Men! Listen with humility
Rediff.com2 Nov 2018

'In this moment, many women are incandescent with anger at the injustice of it all, and...

Dear sexual predator
Rediff.com23 Oct 2018

'I don't care how accomplished you are, and I don't care about your career which has...

Why are our leaders like fish?
Rediff.com11 Aug 2018

'Politicians try to be the leader fish, pulling the country along -- except that they...

Sacred Games is terrific!
Rediff.com24 Jul 2018

'As I watched Sacred Games, I kept flinching at the thought of all the thorns poised to...

If there is one Modi idea I can get behind, it is Swachh Bharat
Rediff.com14 Jul 2018

'As an idea, cleaning up India is a good one,' says Mitali Saran.

The general election will be the dirtiest yet
Rediff.com20 Jun 2018

'It promises to get much, much darker before the dawn.' 'But at least dawn has a...

We are letting BJP close its hands around democracy's throat
Rediff.com26 May 2018

'Already, the BJP treats the Constitution like the unpopular old uncle at the party,...

Desperately seeking Vikas
Rediff.com23 May 2018

'The BJP's election campaign promise of development isn't dead, it just doesn't look...

'I'm now more inclined to forgive Savarkar for begging the Brits to let him out'
Rediff.com11 May 2018

Because the Andaman Islands are gorgeous!

All ye sheep: Beware the Facebook Wolf
Rediff.com5 May 2018

'The thing we fondly call FB has come a long way from the cute baby dimples it had in...

Watching the watchmen
Rediff.com2 May 2018

While it's important for the courts to enjoy public trust, says Mitali Saran, the only...

India is profoundly sick and I don't know if it will get better
Rediff.com24 Apr 2018

'When a country's humanity and morality levels are this low, it has a disease so deadly...