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The Assassin’s Republic-III: Safer in prison than outside

MJ Akbar NEW DELHI: Benazir Bhutto’s party won the elections and a nonentity, Yusuf Raza Gilani, was sworn in. Musharraf...

Zia chapter and Benazir’s killing: The Assassin’s Republic-II

MJ Akbar The military-bureaucrat complex which seized power in 1951 has never surrendered it. When suicidal mistakes made army despots...

The Assassin’s Republic

MJ Akbar NEW DELHI:There may not be smoke without fire, but there can be fire without smoke. In the history...

Shramev Jayate!

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: For decades, India struggled with weak economic growth, entrenched corruption, and a chronic absence of commitment...

The Munir-Yunus nexus

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI: Vishnugupta, alas Chanakya, alias Kautilya, gets the credit for everything from walking on diplomatic eggshells to...

Rigmaroles of Bihar: Voters made decision on parameter of governance

Blitz Bureau NEW DELHI:In the last fifty years Mumbai has reinvented itself, Madras has become the mother lode of a...