The writer is a veteran journalist.

April 06, 2004 00:00 IST
The joke doing the rounds of Delhi is that L.K. Advani’s rath yatra is only between North Block and South Block. The two red stone buil...
Tue, Apr 06, 2004
March 23, 2004 00:00 IST
When it comes to rewarding government officials for the service they render, the Bhartiya Janata Party is many paces ahead of the Congress. ...
Tue, Mar 23, 2004
March 09, 2004 00:00 IST
It has been a futile chase. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has already taken one and a half years to inquire into the shootout ...
Tue, Mar 09, 2004
February 16, 2004 00:00 IST
However strident the tone of condemnation, America did connive in Pakistan’s clandestine efforts to acquire the nuclear bomb. When A.Q....
Mon, Feb 16, 2004
February 10, 2004 00:00 IST
I was sad to notice that not one of them — the president, the vice president, the prime minister, the leader of the opposition — a...
Tue, Feb 10, 2004
January 26, 2004 00:00 IST
The peace bomb had exploded in Pakistan in the shape of a joint statement. The devastation of hard-liners was nearly complete. In Lahore and...
Mon, Jan 26, 2004
January 13, 2004 00:00 IST
A few months ago when I met deposed Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at Jeddah, he said that they would denounce any accord India signed...
Tue, Jan 13, 2004
December 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Zulfi, I know that we must find a solution for Kashmir. But we have got caught in a situation which we can’t get out of without causing...
Tue, Dec 30, 2003
December 16, 2003 00:00 IST
I Fell in love with the Bangladeshis long before they liberated themselves from West Pakistan 32 years ago. The independence struggle has an...
Tue, Dec 16, 2003
December 02, 2003 00:00 IST
It is more economic than ethnic in Assam. The BJP-led government, caught between mandir and Modi, does not understand a simple thing like th...
Tue, Dec 02, 2003
November 18, 2003 00:00 IST
It would be a pity if after the unanimous demand by the press to codify privileges of legislatures, the Central government failed to act. Th...
Tue, Nov 18, 2003
November 04, 2003 00:00 IST
I am one of those who wrote and signed a petition in favour of S.A.R. Geelani’s release. I was happy when the Delhi High Court did not ...
Tue, Nov 04, 2003
October 21, 2003 00:00 IST
It is too familiar, too repetitive. Who begins the exercise does not matter. The BJP may do so and the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) would joi...
Tue, Oct 21, 2003
October 07, 2003 00:00 IST
In a way, the meeting at Cancun and the Supreme Court’s judgment on the sale of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Bharat Petr...
Tue, Oct 07, 2003
September 23, 2003 00:00 IST
The right or wrong of an action is all that morality is. It is how you perceive it. Human Resource Development Minister Murli Manohar Joshi ...
Tue, Sep 23, 2003
September 09, 2003 00:00 IST
What is the difference between dictatorship and democracy? In the first, one person changes the people; in the second, the people change tha...
Tue, Sep 09, 2003
August 26, 2003 00:00 IST
During my six-year stint in the Rajya Sabha, I requested the government many times to publish the Henderson-Brooks report on the 1962 India-...
Tue, Aug 26, 2003
August 12, 2003 00:00 IST
Houseboats in Srinagar give pride of place to leather-bound visitors’ books to record outpourings of impressed guests. The houseboat in...
Tue, Aug 12, 2003
July 29, 2003 00:00 IST
The defence minister says the media should not exaggerate the Akhnoor incident. But even a straight report makes dismal reading. A brigadier...
Tue, Jul 29, 2003
July 15, 2003 00:00 IST
Personal rivalries can destroy families but when they assume political dimensions, they can damage the system itself. The tendency to settle...
Tue, Jul 15, 2003
July 01, 2003 00:00 IST
This was in 1945, two years before Partition. The demand for Pakistan was gaining ground and affecting relations between Hindus and Muslims ...
Tue, Jul 01, 2003
June 17, 2003 00:00 IST
I think we tend to exaggerate Pakistan’s responsibility in solving the Kashmir problem. The terrorism it has exported, the camps it has...
Tue, Jun 17, 2003
June 03, 2003 00:00 IST
Brajesh mishra’s advocacy of an “US-Israel-India” alliance is too serious a proposition to be overlooked. It cannot be an off...
Tue, Jun 03, 2003
May 20, 2003 00:00 IST
Nawaz Sharif seems to have tied it all up in his mind: Benazir Bhutto will sweep the polls in Sind and he, in Punjab — the NWFP giving ...
Tue, May 20, 2003
May 06, 2003 00:00 IST
When I met Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali early this year at Islamabad, he was not his own master. He had no hesitation in saying tha...
Tue, May 06, 2003




