Regrettably, neither before nor after has pre-poll canvassing been so sordid as in 1969, incidentally the Mahatma’s birth centenary year.
What Dulat does not mention is that Khan, on one of his trips to India, had breakfast with then prime minister Manmohan Singh at Race Course Road.
While the Congress had monopoly of power at the Centre and in the states, it did not matter how power was divided.
The makers of Bajrangi Bhaijaan and its main star, Salman Khan, clearly intend to deliver a message to audiences in India (and to Indians worldwide). The message is, “We Are All the Same”.
On behalf of those of us watching from the outside may I say that both parties ended up looking juvenile and silly.
No amount of taunts can wish away the fact that the Lalit Modi-Sushma Swaraj story has abuse of authority, nepotism and conflict of interest written all over the pages. Mr Jaitley asked the Opposition, what offence has Ms Swaraj committed?
Decline in number of OBC MPs shows that the classic tropes of backward class politics — quotas and simple descriptive representation — no longer work.
The courts must step in when governments persecute individuals like Setalvad.
Iran has achieved an important, historic feat by getting the deal signed.
Participants on general news channels behave like grizzlies with high blood pressure. Business channels are an oasis of calm.
While the RBI criticises policy, it does not use its own limited authority effectively.
It’s very bad. It proves the adage — garbage in, garbage out.
The Organiser editorial takes a critical view of Iftar parties, including the one thrown by the president at Rashtrapati Bhavan. It says that the “ridiculous custom of non-fasting people feeding the well-fed guests for political calculation is against the spirit of any religious ritual.” It adds that individuals or organisations hosting a religious function is […]
Its excommunicated reveal the reality of the Pakistani state.
Lateral exit is as important as lateral entry in improving performance and efficiency.
I am sorry to say that as a Congressman who once fought for the freedom of this country and who courted arrest and suffered so much, I had been treated in this way.
Response to the crisis of farmer suicides is narrowly focused. Poor health accounts for most suicides, necessitating improved access to healthcare rather than special packages
Going against the grain of entrenched pacifism in Japan, Abe is making the case that Tokyo should respond to the rapidly unfolding geopolitical changes in the region.
Mrinalda passed away over a month ago; despite his obvious intellectual brilliance, it will not be as a scholar that he will be remembered, but as a teacher of economics.
Estimates based on SECC and NSS data have different purposes.
Last week, as the negotiations for the Greek bailout climaxed, one could say that Helmut Schmidt had failed in his gamble.
BCCI — the Board of Charlatans and Carpetbaggers in India — is a multimillion-dollar embarrassment, a phenomenally profitable affront to cricket.
It gives me another chance to reiterate that Dr Sen is to blame for keeping vast majority of Indians poor, hungry and illiterate for decades.
Today we have a PM who will “see no evil and hear no evil” when it concerns the ministers in his council of ministers.
The MEA's attitude towards the talks by the two heads of government is interesting.





