Shankaranand: A voice from political wilderness Ask the octogenarian politician about the special bond he enjoyed with the Gandhi family, and he says blandly that it was honesty, sincerity and hard work which brought him closer.
The best of enemies Yet, even as the Iraq debacle has progressively destroyed his popularity at home, his career and his legacy, he has never been heard to complain.
Press foray into English It would be no exaggeration to claim that I read the mornings papers as much for the manner in which smart and ingenious reporters and sub-editors virtually play with language as for the news they carry!
Wasting time can serve a purpose American workers, on average, spend 45 hours a week at work, but describe 16 of those hours as unproductive, according to a study by Microsoft.
Rehabilitation
Stars check in and check out Reliable statistics about drug rehabilitation as a whole are hard to come by, and are near impossible to isolate for the luxury-level rehab programmes that attract so much attention in the news media.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and US Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger speak to students from a school in London on Tuesday. This visit is the final foreign official that Blair met before standing down as Prime Minister on Wednesday. AP
The nations conscience is divided between whether to retain incumbent President Abdul Kalam or anoint a woman president in the form of Pratibha Patil. Will the UPA candidate Ms Patil make a better constitutional head than Mr Kalam? Certainly not, feel a majority of Deccan Herald readers. Since Ms Patil will become a pawn in the hands of her political boss, they want someone with a firm hand to be in the post.
