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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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United States-based Pakistan historian Ayesha Jalal, has has just published Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia.
August 9, 2008

Trapped in false past, false future

Anyone who reads the email sent out by the ‘Indian Mujahideen’ minutes before the serial blasts in Ahmedabad on Saturday will have no difficulty in recognising that it is a rant.
July 30, 2008

‘Middle class by virtue of money, not values’

Apparently, enraged, the BJP-ruled state’s establishment dispatched a legal notice to him, accusing him of inciting hatred between communities.
June 29, 2008

‘Nuclear power is not a viable option’

Lester Brown of Worldwatch Institute remains a quietly optimistic man despite the fact that his warnings over environmental disasters have for long remained unheeded.
June 15, 2008

‘A subsidy meant for the poor helps the rich’

Former Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC) chairman Subir Raha has had an insider’s view of the problems faced by the public sector oil companies.
May 31, 2008

Remedial lessons in capitalism

The sub-prime crisis in the United States seems to have been brought under control, and hope is afloat that the looming American recession can perhaps be kept at bay.
May 20, 2008

‘Space is the new frontier for human kind’

The recent success of the Indian Space Research Organisation in launching 10 satellites into orbit has proved both the talent and the organisation skills.
May 11, 2008

It’s history, seriously

What no one is willing to admit is that Gowariker’s Jodhaa Akbar is a political film, and it is not only because of the protests it is evoking in Rajasthan, MP and in Haryana.
February 24, 2008

‘Market is the fig leaf of the new middle class’

Christophe Jaffrelot, director of CERI at Sciences Po is an old French India hand. For a long time now, he documented the emergence and development of right-wing movements in India.
February 17, 2008

The pussyfooting of the Indian intellectual

We are charmed by our own circumlocutions. It is not just the politicians who indulge in this pointless, longwinded verbal calisthenics.
December 2, 2007

A rosy view of a colourless past

Is there a creativity crisis among the top lot in the Hindi cinema world? Or is it nostalgia? Why this intense backward glance?
November 18, 2007

Why are Oscars our holy grail?

The controversy over India’s entry for the Oscars, Eklavya, has been resolved at last. FFI convinced the court that the decision was a fair one.
October 21, 2007

India’s Musharraf lobby

Like the Americans, Indians too think that the General must do something to bring a semblance of democracy to the country without loosening his grip.
September 22, 2007
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