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August 24, 2018 00:07 IST
Can Emergency be reimposed, I have often wondered
Fri, Aug 24, 2018May 19, 2016 00:35 IST
The apex court’s ruling against a state domicile requirement for a Rajya Sabha seat must be challenged
Thu, May 19, 2016June 25, 2015 00:00 IST
It would not be necessary for an autocratic government to take any extra-constitutional measures today, so pro-establishment has the media become.
Thu, Jun 25, 2015March 26, 2015 00:15 IST
The nation is looking increasingly parochial. Was pluralism only a Nehruvian concept?
Thu, Mar 26, 2015November 28, 2014 02:00 IST
India needs a more generous and accommodating approach to Bangladesh.
Fri, Nov 28, 2014November 05, 2014 00:03 IST
Choice of the site of the latest fidayeen attack shows how much has changed in Pakistan
Wed, Nov 05, 2014December 07, 2005 00:00 IST
Uma Bharati, once of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and Raj Thackeray of the Shiv Sena may not be chips off the same block. But their resentmen...
Wed, Dec 07, 2005November 22, 2005 00:00 IST
I do not know what I can do about the thinking countrymen. They are all there for a cricket commentary or some boorish confrontation among p...
Tue, Nov 22, 2005November 08, 2005 00:00 IST
The bureaucratic Manmohan Singh appears to push back the political Manmohan Singh too often. The former has this time changed the proposal t...
Tue, Nov 08, 2005October 25, 2005 00:00 IST
Six retired director generals of police from different states submitted in person a paper entitled, ‘Communal riots must be accepted as...
Tue, Oct 25, 2005October 14, 2005 00:00 IST
Frankly speaking, I am disappointed with India’s response to the earthquake victims in Pakistan. True, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lo...
Fri, Oct 14, 2005September 27, 2005 00:00 IST
Bihar has been the laboratory of Indian politics. Mahatma Gandhi experimented with satyagraha from the dusty village of Champaran. Decades l...
Tue, Sep 27, 2005September 13, 2005 00:22 IST
My hunch is that the forthcoming meeting with the Pakistan President, General Pervez Musharraf, in New York was very much on the mind of Pri...
Tue, Sep 13, 2005August 30, 2005 00:13 IST
If this is the attitude of the government, then wind up the courts and do whatever you want.” Strong words from Chief Justice of India ...
Tue, Aug 30, 2005August 11, 2005 00:00 IST
I find that the Justice G.T. Nanavati Commission Report on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots is not a fair document. The judge traces events more or ...
Thu, Aug 11, 2005August 03, 2005 00:00 IST
Whether we make the nuclear club status or not depends on India’s Parliament and the US Congress. The latter will count more because it...
Wed, Aug 03, 2005July 19, 2005 00:08 IST
It will be naive to weigh Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Washington purely on the scales of what he actually brings back from...
Tue, Jul 19, 2005July 05, 2005 00:09 IST
THE CPI(M) was the only political party which supported a petition in the Supreme Court that Rajya Sabha members had to be elected from the ...
Tue, Jul 05, 2005June 21, 2005 00:00 IST
The controversy over opposition leader L.K. Advani’s praise of Mohammed Ali Jinnah has had an adverse fallout in Pakistan. People there...
Tue, Jun 21, 2005June 07, 2005 00:02 IST
While in Lahore a few days ago, I picked up a book, We’ve Learnt Nothing From History, by Mohammad Asghar Khan, first commander-in-chie...
Tue, Jun 07, 2005May 24, 2005 00:00 IST
One more Awami League leader in Bangladesh has been killed in broad daylight. He is the second in the last few months. Former Awami League m...
Tue, May 24, 2005May 10, 2005 00:00 IST
Unlike in India, opinion polls in the West are conducted scientifically and objectively. It was not surprising to find predictions coming tr...
Tue, May 10, 2005April 26, 2005 00:53 IST
While India was busy watching the dismal performance of its over-rated cricket team, Dharaji — a small pilgrim town in Madhya Pradesh &...
Tue, Apr 26, 2005April 12, 2005 00:00 IST
Notice the national mood. How relaxed the country seems as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visits it. There is an air of understanding and concil...
Tue, Apr 12, 2005March 29, 2005 00:00 IST
Eight years of ceasefire in Nagaland is good news but the same cannot be said of the eight year-long negotiations. The prolonged talks betwe...
Tue, Mar 29, 2005