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Elections, a beginningSubscriber Only
May 30, 2002 00:00 IST
Kaskmir was never easy to solve. But the hardliners in the Hurriyat have made it still more difficult. True, they have their own interests t...
Thu, May 30, 2002BJP tests the watersSubscriber Only
May 20, 2002 00:00 IST
After having come to know about the killing of the innocent in Jammu, the American Ambassador cancelled the dinner he was hosting in honour ...
Mon, May 20, 2002Appoint a retired judgeSubscriber Only
May 07, 2002 00:00 IST
I am against appointment of retired judges as heads of commissions and inquiry committees. They tend to prolong their term. They are in no h...
Tue, May 07, 2002Back to the fortiesSubscriber Only
April 23, 2002 00:00 IST
The Bharatiya Janata Party has thrown down the gauntlet. It has said openly and unashamedly that it wants to establish Hindu raj in the coun...
Tue, Apr 23, 2002Yet, hope floats by the SabarmatiSubscriber Only
April 12, 2002 00:00 IST
I was not there. I wish I had been when there was an attack on a peace meeting at the Sabarmati Ashram, the place hallowed by the name of Ma...
Fri, Apr 12, 2002False hostilitiesSubscriber Only
April 10, 2002 00:00 IST
He was dying. He knew it. The familiar faces were receding slowly into the background as he was breathing hard. The retired major general ge...
Wed, Apr 10, 2002The road taken, from Sialkot to AhmedabadSubscriber Only
April 03, 2002 00:00 IST
I have returned from Gujarat with a pile of memoranda. It always happens whenever I visit a riot-affected area. I got loads of them when I w...
Wed, Apr 03, 2002The size doesn’t fitSubscriber Only
March 26, 2002 00:00 IST
I do not know why the BJP does not realise that it looks odd in the clothes of pluralism it is trying to wear. It is a futile exercise if th...
Tue, Mar 26, 2002The eyes of the MahatmaSubscriber Only
January 30, 2001 00:00 IST
As a cub reporter, I covered the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, exactly 53 years ago. I was then working with an Urdu dail...
Tue, Jan 30, 2001Big brother lands in a big messSubscriber Only
January 16, 2001 00:00 IST
Self-righteousness is offensive even in an individual. But it takes the form of jingoism when a nation indulges in it. New Delhi's claim t...
Tue, Jan 16, 2001The story of usSubscriber Only
January 02, 2001 00:00 IST
Seldom do cause and person converge in such a manner that the two are indistinguishable. When they do, they produce a human rights activis...
Tue, Jan 02, 2001Murder in custody?Subscriber Only
December 19, 2000 00:00 IST
In his book, Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther describes how cancer devours his only son bit by bit. He tells poignantly about his helpless...
Tue, Dec 19, 2000The battle for peaceSubscriber Only
December 05, 2000 00:00 IST
A soldier welcomes a ceasefire because he knows what conflict brings in its train. Pakistan's CEO General Pervez Musharraf should have res...
Tue, Dec 05, 2000The guilt of AyodhyaSubscriber Only
November 21, 2000 00:00 IST
Defence Minister George Fernandes has been a commissar, not a yogi. He understandably does not appreciate the pull of morality. He gave a ...
Tue, Nov 21, 2000Moonglow over AsiaSubscriber Only
October 24, 2000 00:00 IST
When the news editor for The Times, London, rang me up on the night of July 12, 1971, to check whether Henry Kissinger, the then US secret...
Tue, Oct 24, 2000Debate, don’t dictateSubscriber Only
October 10, 2000 00:00 IST
Two reports have landed on my table at the same time. One claims that the Indian economy is fourth in the world in terms of purchasing pow...
Tue, Oct 10, 2000Astride two horsesSubscriber Only
September 26, 2000 00:00 IST
That Atal Bihari Vajpayee is a right man in the wrong party is a cliche. Still people use it because they have seen him rising above the B...
Tue, Sep 26, 2000Bellicosity doesn’t paySubscriber Only
September 12, 2000 00:00 IST
A gesture, by definition, is a rough means of communication. Words are absent but the import of the message is clear. It is like a tide wh...
Tue, Sep 12, 2000Who killed our conscience?Subscriber Only
August 28, 2000 00:00 IST
There must be something wrong with us. It is not the question of just being a `soft state,' as described by Gunnar Myrdal in his book, Asi...
Mon, Aug 28, 2000Secularism is indispensableSubscriber Only
August 15, 2000 00:00 IST
Partition has, in fact, debunked the two-nation theory. Fiftythree years ago, when the subcontinent was divided on August 15, India had mo...
Tue, Aug 15, 2000Jethmalani vs judiciarySubscriber Only
August 01, 2000 00:00 IST
Surely, we were not playing chess." This is what Ram Jethmalani wrote to Chief Justice of India A.S. Anand two days before he was ask...
Tue, Aug 01, 2000Paranoid in PakistanSubscriber Only
July 18, 2000 00:00 IST
I was in Pakistan soon after the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly passed theautonomy resolution. JKLF leader Amanullah Khan welcomed it. Politic...
Tue, Jul 18, 2000MISA by another nameSubscriber Only
June 20, 2000 00:00 IST
It is an irony that the men who suffered during the Emergency should cometo adopt the same method to govern. And that too in the month whe...
Tue, Jun 20, 2000Et tu, RSS?Subscriber Only
June 06, 2000 00:00 IST
When political organisations change their stand, they show not so much their exasperation as the weakening of resolve. They seek a comprom...
Tue, Jun 06, 2000A tale of two scamsSubscriber Only
May 23, 2000 00:00 IST
Both have a dull, ominous rumble: the removal of ban on the import of 600-odd commodities and the `Vahini' project on information. Both hi...
Tue, May 23, 2000Journalism of Courage
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