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Sunday, November 22, 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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November 18, 2008

‘Why should Hindu terrorism be a surprise’

Tanika Sarkar is professor of history the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. She first wrote about the role of women in right-wing Hindu organisations in 1990.
November 15, 2008

Hangover of irrational exuberance

The economic sob story of the last few weeks has firmly replaced the economic success story of the last few years.
November 3, 2008

New proletariat of the new economy

The boys and girls of Jet Airways who were retrenched and then reinstated in a matter of days present the face of a new proletariat of the new economy.
October 20, 2008

‘The government has been reckless’

Surjit Bhalla, chairman of Delhi-based Oxus Research and Investments, has been an outspoken free market advocate for years now.
October 12, 2008

Our legacy of religious politics

Communalism is not about faith and conversions but about political clout
October 7, 2008

Free us from fanatics

They want to make the world a holy place whether others want it or not.
September 28, 2008

Rumours of socialism in America

Economists appear to be clueless. They are supposed to know, or at least we believe they ought to know. But they are not offering much by way of clarification.
September 22, 2008

Unimaginative India

Everything about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Nuclear Research Centre (CERN) in Geneva is big.
September 14, 2008

The future is economic democracy

Here is an idea that comes with the tag of ‘bad’ and ‘dangerous’. In popular imagination, economic democracy conjures images of trade unionism and strikes.
September 8, 2008

‘The N-deal doesn’t say India cannot test’

Minister of state for science and technology (independent charge) Kapil Sibal feels that the brouhaha over a leaked letter concerning the Indo-US nuclear deal.
September 6, 2008

Define the role of the NSA

National security adviser MK Narayanan briefed the Union cabinet after a visit to Kashmir valley that it was not a police bullet that killed Hurriyat leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz.
August 26, 2008

‘Amarnath was a symbol of secularism’

CIC Wajahat Habibullah has not left Jammu and Kashmir in heart and mind though the J&K cadre IAS officer had moved away physically since the near-fatal accident he had in 1994.
August 16, 2008
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