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Sharad Pawar got slapped. Pic: AP.

India graduates from shoe throwing to slapping

By Fri, Nov 25, 2011 11:13AM UTC View Comments Sharad Pawar got slapped. Pic: AP.

P. Chidambaram, Naveen Jindal, LK Advani and Suresh Kalmadi all have one dubious distinction: they’ve had shoes thrown at them. I wish I could add India’s Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, to that list of shoe receivers. But Mr Pawar wasn’t as lucky as his colleagues. Mr Pawar got slapped. Now that’s progress. Harvinder Singh, the...

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Opinion: Slap-happy Singh deserves full force of the law

By Fri, Nov 25, 2011 4:08AM UTC View Comments Indian Harvinder Singh looks out from inside a vehicle after being detained by policemen in New Delhi, India, Thursday. Pic: AP.

However much politicians as a class might dither on introducing safeguards against corruption and however much some leaders may have a record that is not exactly clean, there is no way one can justify the moral brigade from going around slapping the Sharad Pawars and Sukh Rams. It is true that middle class in India...

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