Vir Sanghvi

And if he wasn’t well-connected?
When it comes to its children, the political class is united. It’s them first. And it is the rest of us afterwards. But I don’t think that any of us will let it be. We recognise what the politicians are up to. They think that if they hold firm, the issue will die down and all of us will find other things to worry about. After all, they managed to get Manu Sharma out of Tihar jail without anyone noticing, writes Vir Sanghvi.

Pratik Kanjilal

Faith, a lost commodity
Why is everyone so outraged because Manu Sharma went clubbing while on parole? No, I haven’t ganged up with Ram Jethmalani, who seems to have lost his sense of propriety after taking Sharma’s case.

Barkha Dutt

Sceptics, once again
Manu Sharma’s conviction gave us hope. But his parole controversy shows that influential people can still twist the law for personal gains, writes Barkha Dutt.

Sagarika Ghose

To not to be

There is more than something rotten in the state of West Bengal. And Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is its leading Shakespearean tragic hero, writes Sagarika Ghose.

Pankaj Vohra

BJP proposes, RSS disposes
Mohan Bhagwat is keen that a younger leader who works closely with the Sangh to further its ideology heads the BJP, writes Pankaj Vohra.
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Rock’n’Roll Circus
Shooting blanks
Truly unbearable is ‘Unwrite that song,’ that sounds like a downright lovechild of a Gareth Brooks song and ‘We are the world’. That shudder is followed by the only number from this album that leaps out to grab, writes Indrajit Hazra.
Potato farmers peeved
A poor produce this year and lack of access to cold storage facilities have been disastrous for West Bengal’s small potato farmers, reports Snigdhendu Bhattacharya. See graphics

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