Countdown to the Presidency
Even as the Uttar Pradesh elections are set to ‘decide' who gets to sit on the top chair at Raisina Hill, all the parties are busy chalking out their respective strategies. And not everything is as aboveboard and impeccable as one could imagine the selection of the President of India might be: there are many factors that go into his or her making.......MORE

  
 
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Ancestorland

 
H Y Sharada Prasad
A Nieman Fellow at Harvard, he served as information Advisor to Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi. He was formerly a trustee of IGNCA and chairman of NID.
Syeda S Hameed
is a Member of the Planning Commission. She is the founder member of Muslim Women's Forum and a founder trustee of the Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia.
Cmde C Uday Bhaskar 
 is deputy director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
a veteran journalist and commentator, is currently Director, School of Convergence, New Delhi.