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The Rajya Sabha undoneSubscriber Only
April 22, 2003 00:00 IST
A study of the Rajya Sabha membership for half a century (1952-2002) shows that before 1989 only 3 per cent of the members came from outside...
Tue, Apr 22, 2003Journalism on the cheapSubscriber Only
April 08, 2003 00:00 IST
Is the media accountable? This anguished question of Chief Justice V.N. Khare should not go unnoticed now that the media is preoccupied with...
Tue, Apr 08, 2003This God has failedSubscriber Only
March 24, 2003 00:00 IST
The Cold War was any day better. It gave us peace for 60 years. Communist and non-communist blocs growled at each other. They barked but nev...
Mon, Mar 24, 2003BJP’s historic obsessionsSubscriber Only
March 11, 2003 00:00 IST
To imagine that the Hindutva forces will be foiled by the BJP’s defeat in the Himachal Pradesh assembly election is to underestimate th...
Tue, Mar 11, 2003Basking in the chillSubscriber Only
February 25, 2003 00:00 IST
It suits the governments in New Delhi and Islamabad to sustain bilateral estrangement. They have developed a vested interest in maintaining ...
Tue, Feb 25, 2003America’s oil slickSubscriber Only
February 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Oil is cheap but technology costly.” This was President Saddam’s remark to Inder Gujral, then foreign minister, during a conversat...
Tue, Feb 11, 2003In Dhaka, Delhi on the mindSubscriber Only
January 28, 2003 00:00 IST
At Dhaka no one takes Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani’s assertion that there are 20 million Bangladeshis in India seriously. It is co...
Tue, Jan 28, 2003My enemy’s enemy is my …?Subscriber Only
January 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Every time I visit Pakistan —this time it was after two years—I find the distance between the government and the people increasing...
Tue, Jan 14, 2003For tomorrow, remain togetherSubscriber Only
December 31, 2002 00:00 IST
It won’t be a good year to remember. We died so many times this year. It was not just the carnage in Gujarat, the lynching of Dalits in...
Tue, Dec 31, 2002B’day advice for PM: stop riding two horsesSubscriber Only
December 26, 2002 00:00 IST
Let me make the BJP’s landslide victory in Gujarat as the peg to write on Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who celebrated his 78th ...
Thu, Dec 26, 2002Not a final verdictSubscriber Only
December 17, 2002 00:00 IST
It is a Babri masjid-like tragedy. The BJP’s decisive victory in Gujarat may not have demolished any structure of our composite culture...
Tue, Dec 17, 2002Governance? Forget itSubscriber Only
December 03, 2002 00:00 IST
Surely this is not the kind of governance Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee wants his party to flaunt in Gujarat, or elsewhere in the coun...
Tue, Dec 03, 2002In Pak, liberals have nowhere to goSubscriber Only
November 21, 2002 00:00 IST
Liberals in Pakistan have a problem: They do not like Asif Ali Zardari, Benazir Bhutto’s corrupt and uncouth husband. But they have no ...
Thu, Nov 21, 2002Vajpayee’s choiceSubscriber Only
November 19, 2002 00:00 IST
It took the authority of the prime minister to restore the dignity of the Election Commission. The two sangh parivar members, the BJP and th...
Tue, Nov 19, 2002Another partition of IndiaSubscriber Only
November 05, 2002 00:00 IST
Oil is one of the strategic commodities which every independent country wants to possess. After winning freedom, India began the same exerci...
Tue, Nov 05, 2002The ascendancy of bigotsSubscriber Only
October 22, 2002 00:00 IST
Not long ago, whenever a discussion on the increasing strength of the BJP in Lok Sabha took place in Lahore, Islamabad or Karachi, I would b...
Tue, Oct 22, 2002Not so equal in the UKSubscriber Only
October 08, 2002 00:00 IST
Every time I visit London, I return disillusioned. Here is an age-old democracy, whose pluralistic temperament is declining, bit by bit. I c...
Tue, Oct 08, 2002The Line of PeaceSubscriber Only
September 24, 2002 00:00 IST
The Line of Control, resulting from the ceasefire of December 17 1971, was ‘‘a line of peace.’’ So said Zulfikar Ali Bhu...
Tue, Sep 24, 2002Bigotry will fail hereSubscriber Only
September 10, 2002 00:00 IST
This happened in Delhi. It was a memorial lecture. The man who delivered it was Narayana N.R. Murthy, chief of Infosys, an icon in the softw...
Tue, Sep 10, 2002BJP versus InstitutionsSubscriber Only
August 27, 2002 00:00 IST
Sometimes I wonder whether the BJP, then Jana Sangh, fought against the Emergency because it wanted to defend democratic institutions or bec...
Tue, Aug 27, 2002In J&K, do it rightSubscriber Only
August 13, 2002 00:00 IST
As India completes 55 years of independence, Kashmir remains a problem. New Delhi has messed it up again. This time it is the doing of the B...
Tue, Aug 13, 2002Carnage is his manifestoSubscriber Only
July 30, 2002 00:00 IST
Could anyone have imagined earlier in the year that the BJP would have its own nominees as the country’s president and speaker? The par...
Tue, Jul 30, 2002We will tell no evilSubscriber Only
July 15, 2002 00:00 IST
I don't know why the disclosure of assets should be a point of controversy. The Election Commission’s instructions after the Supreme Co...
Mon, Jul 15, 2002The right to say my pieceSubscriber Only
July 02, 2002 00:00 IST
Some fifty years ago, the Indian Constituent Assembly debated our Fundamental Rights. One of them is Freedom of Speech and Expression (Artic...
Tue, Jul 02, 2002Pygmies as king makersSubscriber Only
June 18, 2002 00:00 IST
The case of President K.R. Narayanan for a second term was weakened when former president, R. Venkataraman, sent him this message: if you co...
Tue, Jun 18, 2002Journalism of Courage
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