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Shiv Visvanathan

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Return of the Rahul Congress
Rediff.com16 Mar 2015

The Queen has retired, the bosses have left, long live the prince as king, says Shiv...

Pravasi Special: 'Modi has enthused the Diaspora'
Rediff.com8 Jan 2015

The Diaspora is no longer a mere remittance economy. It today claims dual loyalty and...

Bollywood for all its genius has only one Salman Khan
Rediff.com30 Oct 2014

'His is a naive genius which eludes the sophisticated. He is natural, lazy, effortless....

Modi is not Chacha Nehru, or Chacha Modi, but Modi
Rediff.com9 Sep 2014

'His script, his body language is different, at the most he is a trained pracharak, a...

Making sense of India's response to the Gaza crisis
Rediff.com12 Aug 2014

'Earlier India as part of the Third World fought for the rights of the Palestinians....

Modi's masks may erase the more human face
Rediff.com11 Jul 2014

Today when we see the man behaving in a controlled, almost genteel fashion, creating a...

Why the Modi govt may have erred in the case of Gopal Subramanium
Rediff.com26 Jun 2014

Subramanium, a feisty character, is not going to let anyone sully his reputation. He is...

Will there be space for dissent in Modi's India?
Rediff.com19 May 2014

'In Modi's moral majority, words like security become problematic and a moral majority...

9 ways the media brought Priyanka centre stage
Rediff.com6 May 2014

From Arvind Kejriwal to Priyanka, this has been a media-determined election. Two forces...

Open letter to Modi: You have failed as a healer
Rediff.com22 Apr 2014

'I see you as a man who has split the nation into two. Vajpayee or even Advani would...

Gulaab Gang is a thought-provoking, masala movie
Rediff.com13 Mar 2014

Hindi cinema seems readier than society to focus on women. It is not just rape one is...

The method behind the AAP's madness
Rediff.com14 Feb 2014

AAP is arguing quietly that indifference, alienation have to go. These are symptoms of...

Why we should be concerned about the Indian Army's future
Rediff.com2 Dec 2013

The army of the future needs a system of transparency and research. An open sociology...