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May 25, 1999 00:00 IST
There was something familiar about the scenes after followed the resignation of Sonia Gandhi from the Congress presidentship. The party's...
Tue, May 25, 1999
May 11, 1999 00:00 IST
The powers that be are reluctant to convene a session of the Rajya Sabha till the Lok Sabha is constituted. Such a step could have acted ...
Tue, May 11, 1999
April 27, 1999 00:00 IST
April 26 : Coalitions are like poor relations who do not know how to live and when to die. India's experience with them is no better. In ...
Tue, Apr 27, 1999
April 13, 1999 00:00 IST
She does not wait for the phone call any more. All these days she did. She would even imagine there was a ring and run to pick up the rec...
Tue, Apr 13, 1999
March 30, 1999 00:00 IST
It is a strange coincidence that both Atal Behari Vajpayee and Sonia Gandhi should finish one year of their tenure more or less at the sa...
Tue, Mar 30, 1999
March 16, 1999 00:00 IST
The editor of an American daily was summoned for an audience with the Pope. His Holiness wanted to learn about his work. The editor, embo...
Tue, Mar 16, 1999
March 02, 1999 00:00 IST
The bus was deluxe. But the message was simple: neighbours should never be distant. It has taken India and Pakistan as many years to span...
Tue, Mar 02, 1999
February 17, 1999 00:00 IST
An old story of a Sri Lankan prince was told to me in Colombo. He would always sleep in a corner of his large bed. He was afraid to sprea...
Wed, Feb 17, 1999
February 16, 1999 00:00 IST
An old story of a Sri Lankan prince was told to me in Colombo. He would always sleep in a corner of his large bed. He was afraid to sprea...
Tue, Feb 16, 1999
February 02, 1999 00:00 IST
Yet another incident of violence against Christians: this time the killings were those of Graham Stewart Staines, who worked among lepers...
Tue, Feb 02, 1999
February 02, 1999 00:00 IST
Yet another incident of violence against Christians: this time the killings were those of Graham Stewart Staines, who worked among lepers...
Tue, Feb 02, 1999
January 19, 1999 00:00 IST
One top official in the defence ministry strongly objected to the `misuse' of anti-aircraft guns in Kashmir for ground shelling. Little d...
Tue, Jan 19, 1999
January 05, 1999 00:00 IST
If I had been asked in the beginning of last year whether Sonia Gandhi would emerge as the most important person in India, I would have h...
Tue, Jan 05, 1999
December 22, 1998 00:00 IST
How heavenly it was to participate in last year's parliamentary debate on the 50th anniversary of India's Independence. The `second freed...
Tue, Dec 22, 1998
December 08, 1998 00:00 IST
I was in Dhaka when the results of elections in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Rajasthan were declared. They evoked very little atten...
Tue, Dec 08, 1998
November 24, 1998 00:00 IST
Seldom have the results of state elections dictated governments at the Centre. In fact, it has been the other way round. The Centre in its o...
Tue, Nov 24, 1998
November 10, 1998 00:00 IST
It was 1945 -- two years before the formation of Pakistan -- when Mohammad Ali Jinnah came to the Law College in Lahore, where I was a stude...
Tue, Nov 10, 1998
October 27, 1998 00:00 IST
The twice-born Press Council of India -- it was dissolved by Indira Gandhi during the Emergency -- is once again facing a challenge. Its ...
Tue, Oct 27, 1998
October 13, 1998 00:00 IST
It appears that the inquiry into Bofors guns kickbacks is in name only. The other day I complained to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee...
Tue, Oct 13, 1998
September 29, 1998 00:00 IST
Had Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif of Pakistan attended the NAM summit at Durban, the talks over Kashmir would have begun sooner. In his abs...
Tue, Sep 29, 1998
September 15, 1998 00:00 IST
Institutions in India have taken a severe battering over the years. Only a handful have survived. The Election Commission is one of them....
Tue, Sep 15, 1998
August 18, 1998 00:00 IST
Parliament probably did well in not holding the two-day session to review once more what the country lost or gained in the past 50 years....
Tue, Aug 18, 1998
August 04, 1998 00:00 IST
Chief Justice of India M.M. Punchhi had asked for it. Once he wrote to Law Minister M. Thambi Durai that ``what consultation the Chief Ju...
Tue, Aug 04, 1998
July 21, 1998 00:00 IST
Not many will differ with Home Minister L.K. Advani when he says that the credibility of the Indian judiciary has been considerably dente...
Tue, Jul 21, 1998
July 07, 1998 00:00 IST
Practically every day brings evidence of America's bias against India. The latest is that President Clinton wants Beijing to be South Asia's...
Tue, Jul 07, 1998




