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Rasheeda Bhagat is a Senior Associate Editor in Business Line and edits the Life supplement that comes out on Fridays. She writes on politics, interesting people, gender, travel and lifestyle, and conflict and social and human interest/rights issues.

It is a week since I saw a spectacular Flamenco show at the Las Carboneras in Madrid. I don't exaggerate a bit when I say that I can still feel the energy, the vibrancy, the passion, the m... »
The West Bengal Chief Minister, Ms Mamata Banerjee's verbal assault on a student in a televised meeting will be recalled ad nauseum to prove a point: That women politicians are temperamental, neurotic and intolerant. »
It felt sad to leave Madrid on a morning when news had just come in on ratings agency Moody's having downgraded not one or two, but as many as 16 Spanish banks. As this, expectedly, sent s... »

Even though Irfan Husain's book Fatal Faultlines is essentially about Pakistan, Islam and the West, millions of Muslims across the world will nod their heads vigorously in agreement as t... »

The Plaza Mayor has as exciting and tumultuous a history as any iconic square in European towns. Reconstructed several times after it was built in the 16th century, it has been home to a multitude of events. »
I land into Madrid airport and walk out of the Turkish Airways flight into the Immigration area, and am amazed to find, for the next few minutes, our plane load of passengers are the only people i... »
The Presidential dialogue centres around meaningless qualifications such as religion, caste and creed, while millions of Indians continue to live in poverty. What the highest office of the land needs is a person of stature. »
If you want to spend so much money under the NREG scheme, club it with the MP funds or give more money to various State governments so it can be better utilised, and there can be audits. ANURAG SINGH THAKUR, PRESIDENT BHARATIYA YUVA MORCHA »
Corporate executive G.B. Prabhat wields his pen to sketch a coming-of-age literary fiction set in his hometown, Coimbatore. »
When community rights are trampled upon with impunity, no mining package can ever compensate for the invasion into centuries-old tribal homelands. The Tribal Affairs Minister speaks his mind. »
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