How can you tell when a government is in crisis? There are the obvious ways, I suppose. You can tell that a government is in trouble when it is on the verge of losing its majority. When its coalition appears to be cracking up. When its MPs begin to revolt. And so on. Read more

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Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, March 30, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Filed under India · Tagged A Raja, AK Antony, BJP, Chidambaram, Congress, DMK, General VK Singh, Gujarat riots, hindustantimes, Jairam Ramesh, Kapil Sibal, LK Advani, Mamata Banerjee, manmohan singh, Medium term, Narendra Modi, PMO, Pranab, Salman Khurshid, UPA II, vajpayee, Vir Sanghvi
One of the advantages of studying English literature in school is that you come to grips with the themes of the great classics. The disadvantage is that school teachers go out of their way to make these classics so boring that you promptly forget all about them once your exams are over. Read more

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Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, February 3, 2012 at 7:52 pm
Filed under India · Tagged A Raja, Christopher Marlowe, Congress, Dr Faustus, Hindustan Times, Jayalalithaa, M Karunanidhi, manmohan singh, Medium term, news, power, UPA, Vir Sanghvi
I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. When it comes to corruption and the public mood, this government – and perhaps the political class as a whole – just doesn’t get it. Read more

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Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, December 23, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Filed under India, Media · Tagged A Raja, Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Constitution, Hindustan Times, India Against Corruption, Kiran Bedi, lokpal bill, Medium term, news, Parliament, prashant bhushan, Shanti Bhushan, team anna, Vir Sanghvi
Viewers of TV news channels will have noticed a slightly surreal political drama unfolding on their screens over the last week. Read more

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Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Friday, September 30, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Filed under India, Media · Tagged 2G controversy, 2G note, 2G scam, A Raja, Hindustan Times, news, P Chidambaram, Pranab Mukherjee, Sonia Gandhi, Vir Sanghvi