Back to basics
In the end, it was a stop-gap arrangement that had stretched on for longer than was its due. Ever since Ram Prakash Gupta was anointed as UP chief minister after Kalyan Singh's exit from the BJP, there has been serious speculation that he would be asked to step down.



Death of a survivor
Over the last five months, three figures who had left their stamp on the politics of the Congress party have made their exit from the political scene, each in differing ways. Rajesh Pilot, the charismatic MP from Dausa and the man whom many regarded as a potential leader of the party, met with a fatal road accident in June.



The liability factor
Like thousands of Indians I tuned into Zee TV at half past eight this past Monday evening to watch its challenge to Kaun Banega Crorepati. And, again like thousands of Indians, I was frantically praying for the original to come on minutes later. Let us face it, there is really nothing like the original -- and the `Big B' is streets ahead of the competition.



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