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Ashok Malik
About the AuthorAshok Malik
Ashok Malik is senior fellow, Observer Research Foundation. He can be reached at malikashok@gmail.com
    Gabbar & his friendsOpinion
    Gabbar & his friends

    This month 40 years ago saw the release of Sholay. Directed by Ramesh Sippy, the film had a slow start. In a now...

    23 Aug 2015 12:55 PM IST

    Partition: A fallout of 1942?Opinion
    Partition: A fallout of 1942?

    There has been a spate of books in recent weeks on Partition and the birth of Pakistan. The books have covered a range,...

    9 Aug 2015 12:19 PM IST

    Courting chaosOpinion
    Courting chaos

    In recent weeks, the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, better known by its Hindi abbreviation of Vyapam,...

    26 July 2015 12:07 PM IST

    Why India hates Bobby McJindalOpinion
    Why India hates Bobby McJindal

    In the late summer of 2001, I spent four months in the United States on a fellowship. Bang in the middle of that period,...

    28 Jun 2015 12:31 PM IST

    Waiting Game: Don’t hyphenate IsraelOpinion
    Waiting Game: Don’t hyphenate Israel

    Ever since foreign minister Sushma Swaraj announced at a press conference that Prime Minister Narendra Modi would visit...

    14 Jun 2015 6:08 AM IST

    The Kejriwal mantra: Can’t govern, will fightOpinion
    The Kejriwal mantra: Can’t govern, will fight

    In many senses, the seriousness of a new government and of a Prime Minister or chief minister recently elected to office...

    17 May 2015 10:38 AM IST

    Book review The First Firangis: Travellers to an antique landLifestyle
    Book review 'The First Firangis': Travellers to an antique land

    Some books grab you from the first page; others grow on as you turn the pages

    15 May 2015 11:11 AM IST

    Rahul, Modi and GorbachevOpinion
    Rahul, Modi and Gorbachev

    Speaking on “Net neutrality” in the Lok Sabha on April 22, Rahul Gandhi, vice-president of the Congress,...

    3 May 2015 1:45 PM IST

    The CandidateOpinion
    The Candidate

    The long countdown to the United States presidential election has begun. While voters will choose their next chief...

    19 April 2015 10:26 AM IST

    Waiting Game: Hanging by the harbour with VVS LaxmanOpinion
    Waiting Game: Hanging by the harbour with VVS Laxman

    Laxman scored a breathtaking 178 against home side in Sydney on January 2004

    26 March 2015 4:36 PM IST

    The poshak and the toshakhanaOpinion
    The poshak and the toshakhana

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi should not have worn that suit with monogrammed pinstripes. In terms of semiotics, it sent...

    22 Feb 2015 11:48 AM IST

    Waiting Game: Blue economyOpinion
    Waiting Game: Blue economy

    Among the more audacious foreign policy documents agreed to by an Indian Prime Minister in recent years, the...

    9 Feb 2015 7:14 AM IST

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