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Mahindra XEV 9e Mid Variant: The Future Is Here!
The Mahindra XEV 9e mid variant, particularly the PACK TWO, presents a compelling package with a strong emphasis on futuristic design, advanced technology, and passenger comfort, notes Rajesh Karkera. Unveiled last week along with the BE 6, PACK TWO is the luxurious XEV 9e PACK TWO variant. These are the key features of the larger XEV 9e mid variant and what it offers to the modern EV buyer. The Mahindra XEV 9e instantly grabs attention with its striking design.
Is Kerala Ready For Elections?
Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com captures the election mood in and near the town of Shoranur in Kerala. All 20 Lok Sabha constituencies in Kerala will vote on Friday, April 26, 2024. IMAGE: A Left Democratic Front hoarding in Kulappully in Shoranur. All photographs: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com IMAGE: A BJP hoarding in Koonathara in Shoranur. IMAGE: A Congress hoarding has already capsized in Kavalappara near Shoranur. IMAGE: Political messages can pop up in the oddest spots, here and below.
Wonderful Scenes From Kanyakumari
Arjun Panday, Rita Raja, Durga Dominic and Dominic Xavier journeyed to the less-visited deep South of India and offer up gorgeous glimpses of Tamil Country from Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli districts. IMAGE: Tirunelveli Christmases are special. Midnight mass at the 18th century Sacred Heart Church in Kavalkinaru, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu. IMAGE: The mass at Kavalkinaru on Christmas attracts hundreds and hundreds in their Sunday best.
Now Neeraj Takes India To The Moon
Dominic Xavier congratulates Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra as he made history yet again by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal in the World Athletics Championships with a big throw of 88.17m in the men's javelin final in Budapest. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: What Will India Do Without Boom Boom?
Dominic Xavier offers his take on pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah missing the T20 World Cup
Dom's Take: Kaun Banega Congress Ka King?
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the flurry of candidatures for the Congress presidential poll now that frontrunner Ashok Gehlot seems out of the race.
Dom's Take: How Can Gehlot Be Congress Prez?
Magic runs in Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's genes. The magician's son can pull out political rabbits in a jiffy, stunning his political adversaries. Just when his election as Congress president -- the first Congressperson outside the Gandhi-Nehru family to head the party since 1998 -- appeared a near certainty, his MLA loyalists moved to resign en masse from the Rajasthan assembly on Sunday.
Dom's Take: NDTV Within Adani's Grasp
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the Adani group's takeover bid of NDTV, arguably, the rare English and Hindi news television network that is not part of what has come to be known as the godi media.
Dom's Take: The Strange Case Of H C Gupta
Two Mondays ago, August 8, a Delhi court sentenced former coal secretary H C Gupta a 3-year jail term in a coal scam case related to irregularities in the allocation of a coal block in Maharashtra. An IAS officer of the 1971 batch, Mr Gupta, who rose to be Union coal secretary, has been convicted and given jail sentences in 11 out of 12 cases filed under the so-called coal mines allocation scam.
Dom's Take: SHOCKING! Rape Accused Go Free
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the Gujarat government's decision to release 11 convicts sentenced to life imprisonment for the gang rape of Bilkis Bano and the murder of seven members of her family during the 2002 Gujarat riots.
Dom's Take: When Will Such Atrocities End?
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the gruesome incident at a school in Rajasthan's Jalore district where a nine-year-old Dalit boy died on Saturday, August 13, after he was allegedly beaten up by a teacher for touching a drinking water pot.
Dom's Take: What Rushdie Attack Means For Freedom
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the murderous attack on Salman Rushdie in New York state last Friday.
Dom's Take: BJP Bowled In Bihar
When the BJP triumvirate -- Amit Anilchandra Shah, Jagat Prakash Nadda and Bommarabettu Laxmijanardhana Santhosh -- descended on Patna on Sunday, July 31, 2022 and met with party MLAs and MPs, it appeared to political observers that despite declarations that the BJP would contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election and the 2025 Bihar assembly election in alliance with the JD-U, it was time for Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to make his move.
Dom's Take: Whatever Happened To Respect For Elders?
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the bitter face-off between the frail Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who will be 76 in December, and Union Minister Smriti Irani, 46, in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, July 28, 2022.
Dom's Take: India Looks To You Madam President
Dominic Xavier hopes President Droupadi Murmu will be a vigilant guardian of the Constitution and that her term in office will see glory days for the Republic.
Dom's Take: GRRR! GST Is Coming For You
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the recent changes in GST on products like atta, pulses and curd.
Dom's Take: Run Gota Run
For three months, protestors -- angry at how President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's policies had provoked economic ruin in Sri Lanka, forcing many islanders to subsist on one meal a day, shutting down schools and public transport because the country had run out of fuel -- had gathered outside the presidential secretariat asking him to resign.
Dom's Take: Way To Acche Din? Original
In May 2014, when N D Modi took charge as prime minister, a gas cylinder cost Rs 410, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi pointed out last September. On Friday, July 8, 2022, a 14.2 kg gas cylinder costs Rs 1,092.50 in Patna. Dominic Xavier offers his take on the third increase in the LPG rate since May and the fourth this year.
Dom's Take: Every Year In Mumbai
It could be a scene from any year past in the new century. The flooded streets. The trains trapped in rain filled tracks. Traffic standstill for hours in pouring rain. Mumbaikars, whose amazing work ethic is second to none in this country -- or dare we say the planet -- trudging through waist deep water, evading open manholes, trying to get whatever transport they can catch to get to their places of work. offers his take on the city amidst the deluge.
Dom's Take: The Fight For Balasaheb's Mantle
Eknath Shinde claims he is the true inheritor of Balasaheb Thackeray's political legacy, not the Shiv Sena founder's son Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray. Dominic Xavier wonders which way this battle to be declared the real Shiv Sena will end.
Dom's Take: Ho! Mee Mukhyamantri!
Dominic Xavier offers his take on Eknath Shinde becoming Maharashtra's new chief minister.
Dom's Take: Waah Mere Sher Shinde, Waah!
Dominic Xavier offers his take on Maharashtra's riveting political drama when ambitious Eknath Shinde dethroned the late Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray's son and political heir last night.
Dom's Take: KK, Where Will Love Be Without You?
Dominic Xavier salutes KK -- the king of love ballads -- who passed suddenly into the ages after a concert in Kolkata on Tuesday night.
Dom's Take: Hardik, Gujarat Titans Rule!
Dominic Xavier celebrates Hardik Pandya and Gujarat Titans's IPL 2022 triumph.
Dom's Take: Indian Aristocratic Service
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the shunting of IAS couple Sanjeev Khirar and Anu Dugga to Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh respectively following this controversy.
Dom's Take: Will America's Senseless Murders Ever Stop?
Dominic Xavier mourns the 19 children and two teachers murdered in a classroom at a Texas school on Tuesday.
Dom's Take: Will The Rajapaksas GO?
Dominic Xavier wonders if the Rajapaksa brothers, who have dominated politics in Sri Lanka this century with their strong-arm methods, will be forced to exit the stage.
Dom's Take: Arvind, Is That How You Sit?
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal -- whose Aam Aadmi Party's victory in Punjab has apparently rattled the folks who run the Bharatiya Janata Party; there are fears that AAP may do an encore in Himachal Pradesh in this year's assembly election, and even pose a challenge to the BJP in the assembly poll in the duumvirate's original borough -- came under fire on Wednesday over what BJP thumpers declared was his 'mannerless' posture during a meeting presided over by the Pradhan Sevak.
Dom's Take: What's Elon Musk Up To?
Dominic Xavier offers his take on Elon Musk's Twitter grab!
Dom's Take: Break In India
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the BJP governments -- whether in UP, MP or the municipality in the national capital -- to deploy bulldozers to raze the homes of individuals, who it suspects of being involved in riotous activities.
Dom's Take: Raj Thackeray's Relevance Mantra
Raj Thackeray may have changed more political avatars than anyone currently operating in Indian politics. After he broke away from his uncle Shiv Sena founder Balasaheb Thackeray and his cousin Uddhav Thackeray, Raj launched the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena which declared it would take up the cause of the 'Marathi manoos' and targeted North Indians the way the Shiv Sena had gone after South Indians in the late 1960s.
Dom's Take: The Dilemma Of Being Aakar Patel
In what would appear a classic scene from The Theatre of the Bizarre, Rediff.com columnist Aakar Patel was permitted to travel to the US. But wait, Aakar Patel, the former head of Amnesty India, was forbidden from leaving the country! Dominic Xavier wonders whether the desi version of the Keystone Cops are in charge and if they take these terrifying, strange, decisions.
Dom's Take: Rajapaksas In Trouble
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the crisis in Sri Lanka and the demand that the Rajapaksas, who currently dominate the island's presidency, prime ministership and ruling party politics, step down. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: Will Imran Khan Survive?
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the vote of no-confidence against Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan which is slated for March 31. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: Not A Cakewalk, Vlad!
A month after Russia invaded Ukraine, Dominic Xavier salutes the Ukrainians's courage and determination with which they have fought and resisted Vladimir Putin's army. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: Are US Sanctions Enough?
Dominic Xavier wonders whether Joe Biden's sanctions against Russia are enough to make Vladimir Putin halt the senseless war in Ukraine. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: What Broke Congress' Back?
Dominic Xavier wonders if the Congress's pathetic performance in the assembly elections will end the Sonia-Rahul-Priyanka 'high command' era. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Congress' Gandhis Caravan Rolls On
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the outcome of Sunday's Congress Working Committee meeting. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: BJP Rocks!
Dominic Xavier is gobsmacked by the BJP's emphatic triumph in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: Game Over For Congress?
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the dismal performance of the grand old party in the five-state elections results to which were declared on Thursday. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: And The World Will Suffer...
Dominic Xavier offers his take on spiralling oil and gas prices courtesy Vladimir Putin's Ukraine invasion. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: Well BOWLED, Shane!
Dominic Xavier pays homage to the God of Spin who suddenly passed into the ages on Friday, March 4, 2022. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: Save Our Students!
Dominic Xavier offers his take on Operation Ganga and the danger posed to Indian students still trapped in Ukraine. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: What's Putin Up To?
Dominic Xavier offers his take on Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats.
Vlad, This Is The 21st Century!
Dominic Xavier offers his take on Putin's War. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Lakhimpur Kheri: Will They Remember?
Dominic Xavier wonders if the voters of Lakhimpur Kheri, which goes to the polls on Wedneday, will remember the tragedy that struck the area on October 3 last year. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: Beti Bachao Beti Padhao?
Dominic Xavier offers his take on the hijab row in Karnataka. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: BLAME It All On Congress
Dominic Xavier offers his take on Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi's speeches in Parliament on Monday and Tuesday. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: Alvida, Lata Didi!
Dominic Xavier pays tribute to The Amazing Lata Mangeshkar. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
Dom's Take: SHAME On You China!
Dominic Xavier offers his take on China fielding a soldier involved in the Galwan Valley clash as a torchbearer for the Beijing Winter Olympics. Feature Presentation: Aslam Hunani/Rediff.com
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