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Explained: How does India choose its Republic Day chief guest? Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom will be the Chief Guest at the forthcoming Republic Day parade. Why is the invitation to attend India’s Republic Day a special honour? December 18, 2020 4:47:12 pm UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (Photo by Daniel Leal-Olivas - WPA Pool/Getty Images) Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom will be the Chief Guest at the forthcoming Re...

Agriculture, pumpkin and bhaji TREVOR SUDAMA OVER THE years, journalists, commentators and letter writers in the media have assigned to me the label of “Minister of Pumpkin and Bhaji.” It was a fanciful term of disparagement of both myself and local agriculture. Recently, columnist Indera Sagewan, writing under the elaborate title of “Specialist Economist in Competitiveness,” would devote a whole column to regurgitating hoary rebuttals of Minister Clarence Rambharat’s unfortunate, mis...