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Sunday, November 8, 2009

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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
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Parsa Venkateshwar Rao, Jr, was born in 1953 and brought up in Hyderabad, where he attended St George’s Grammar School and Hyderabad Public School. He spent six years in Chennai, reading for BA (history) at Loyola College and MA (English) at the University Department of English.

Rao has worked with The Indian Express, India Today, and tehelka.com and served as editor of National Review, a monthly political magazine. He has written for The New Sunday Express (Chennai), Deccan Herald (Bengaluru), The Gulf News (Dubai), The Daily Star (Beirut), Today (Singapore), and for a London-based website, Open Democracy. He was also with The Gulf Today in Sharjah and The Straits Times, Singapore.

In 2005, Rao published a book, Mullah Omar and Robespierre: Essays In The Politics Of Ideas (Rupa), a selection from the books column he wrote for The New Sunday Express from 2000 to 2004.

Rao joined the edit page of Daily News and Analysis in March 2007. He writes analytical pieces on politics and culture.

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Indira Gandhi was merely a politician

Anniversaries are sentimental occasions. So it was with Indira Gandhi on the occasion of her tragic assassination a quarter century ago.
November 2, 2009

UPA-2’s conspicuous tilt towards the US

There is no need to look for conspiracy theories that PM Manmohan Singh and some of his cabinet colleagues are taking decisions that send out a clear signal that India-US relations will be closer in UPA’s second term.
October 20, 2009

India’s obsession with the US, Pak & China

Pakistan again occupied the whole Indian mind space from November 26, 2008 when alleged Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists attacked Mumbai.
October 5, 2009

Recession recedes, need more capitalists

What we need is a diagnosis of the disorder from within the capitalist system. And this can be done only by friends, not opponents, of capitalism.
September 21, 2009

Nuke scientists squabble and squeal

The word ‘nuclear’ evokes nukes in the sense of atomic and hydrogen bombs. Very rarely do we ever think of nuclear power.
September 7, 2009

A pretentious film bamboozles critics

Bhardwaj belongs to that tribe of self-conscious filmmakers who are keen to flaunt their virtuosity in cinematic acrobatics.
August 24, 2009

The evil called the welfare state

Politicians of many hues and social activists of many kinds have this strange and strong and very nearly perverse belief that there is a need to create Constitutional rights for all possible things.
August 10, 2009

The sad and tragic tale of Kargil

It appears that even as the country grows strong and confident, people do not seem to have the courage to ask of themselves some hard and uncomfortable questions and to face up to failures.
July 27, 2009

Bright ideas to chase the darkness away

The irritation with Pranab Mukherjee’s budget last week had less to do with what finance minister did or did not do: it was but a symptom of the general sense of unease.
July 13, 2009

The business-friendly socialist state

Some of the American banks that had accepted bailouts gave back the money so that they do not have to accept the directives of lawmakers on executive salaries and perks.
June 29, 2009

Why reservations are such a disaster

The way to hell, we are told, is paved with good intentions. It appears that some such folly has been committed with regard to reservations policy .
June 15, 2009

Imparting quality to higher education

If there are a large number of mediocre institutes, the result will be a large number of mediocre — read unemployable — graduates being turned out.
June 1, 2009

With power comes great responsibility

Congress' 206-seat tally is delicious pudding compared to the gruel the party’s leaders and followers had survived on in the last five years.
May 18, 2009
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