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Mani Shankar Aiyar
The writer is a former Union minister.
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Defeat and its consequencesSubscriber Only
December 09, 2003 00:00 IST
Kudos to the BJP for overturning what most agreed was a certain Congress victory in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and a possible retention by t...
Tue, Dec 09, 2003New Germany in New EuropeSubscriber Only
November 25, 2003 00:00 IST
I have spent the last week in Germany, largely in Berlin and what used to be the old communist-run German Democratic Republic, meeting diplo...
Tue, Nov 25, 2003On the waterfrontSubscriber Only
November 11, 2003 00:00 IST
Since President Chandrika Kumaratunga is emphatically not the Jayaram Jayalalithaa of Sri Lanka, there must be some rational explanation, be...
Tue, Nov 11, 2003The Thirteenth StepSubscriber Only
October 28, 2003 00:00 IST
One knows Atal Bihari Vajpayee has a horror of the number thirteen, not because Hindutva has suddenly taken to Christian superstitions but b...
Tue, Oct 28, 2003Hindutva rate of growthSubscriber Only
October 14, 2003 00:00 IST
Government, the business class and right-wing ideologues are beside themselves with joy. The economy is at last beginning to look up. Foreig...
Tue, Oct 14, 2003A new map for the worldSubscriber Only
September 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Papa George Bush fought Gulf War I to, in his own words, introduce ‘‘a new world order’’. Boy Bush fought Gulf War II fo...
Tue, Sep 30, 2003Asleep at the wheelSubscriber Only
September 16, 2003 00:00 IST
Since private preference must yield to public obligation, I regret I cannot cheer the nomination to the Rajya Sabha of my four-decades old f...
Tue, Sep 16, 2003BJP’s favourite West AsianSubscriber Only
September 05, 2003 00:00 IST
Ariel Sharon began his career in 1946-47 with one of the Zionist terrorist gangs who flung themselves against the British mandate. He was th...
Fri, Sep 05, 2003Leave it to LalooSubscriber Only
August 19, 2003 00:00 IST
As an extra in Laloo’s roadshow to Pakistan, I watched with fascinated interest the media focus at the New Delhi railway station turn t...
Tue, Aug 19, 2003In a Mesopotamian muddleSubscriber Only
August 05, 2003 00:00 IST
General Richard Myers, US military bossman, has come and gone. He said he did not discuss Indian troops for Iraq. Oh yeah. Like pigs have wi...
Tue, Aug 05, 2003A question of accountabilitySubscriber Only
July 22, 2003 00:00 IST
For two long years and more, the scams and scandals which led to the collapse of the stock market in March 2001 resulted in market capitalis...
Tue, Jul 22, 2003Barren Mother CauverySubscriber Only
July 08, 2003 00:00 IST
The Cauvery delta is bone dry. I have never before seen the canals and rivulets this dry at the height of the kuruvai season. The long-servi...
Tue, Jul 08, 2003American durbarSubscriber Only
June 24, 2003 00:00 IST
We are not being invited to keep the peace. We are being invited to consolidate an occupation. There are ample forces available to the invad...
Tue, Jun 24, 2003Clerical errorsSubscriber Only
June 10, 2003 00:00 IST
For a military dictatorship, there is a quite remarkable degree of freedom of expression in Pakistan. So, Pakistani participants at the semi...
Tue, Jun 10, 2003Letter from IslamabadSubscriber Only
May 29, 2003 00:00 IST
ISLAMABAD: It has cost me twice as much to fly to Islamabad as it would have to get me to London. This is one measure of the damage we are i...
Thu, May 29, 2003Three cannot tangoSubscriber Only
May 13, 2003 00:00 IST
The French call it a menage a trois, a household of three, which is what India, Pakistan and the United States are slipping into. Even as he...
Tue, May 13, 2003NDA hype and hypocrisySubscriber Only
April 29, 2003 00:00 IST
The coup of October 1999 remains undone. Pervez ‘Kargil’ Musharraf is still the military ruler of Pakistan. Nawaz Sharif remains i...
Tue, Apr 29, 2003Pop issues for poll timesSubscriber Only
April 15, 2003 00:00 IST
Unfortunately, there was no opportunity last Friday to go into any of the substantive issues relating to the question of a country-wide ban ...
Tue, Apr 15, 2003Baghdad can backfireSubscriber Only
April 01, 2003 00:00 IST
The world is shocked. And Iraq is not awed. But India? I have been travelling all over the country in the last fortnight, from Tripura to Ke...
Tue, Apr 01, 2003The govt doesn’t know its mindSubscriber Only
March 18, 2003 00:00 IST
It looks as if this column will appear just as the first US missiles crash into Baghdad to pulverise the blameless people of Iraq. The call ...
Tue, Mar 18, 2003Northeast depressionSubscriber Only
March 04, 2003 00:00 IST
In a democracy, one has to accept the people’s wish. Even if that wish is a death wish. In Tripura, a party which has fostered the wors...
Tue, Mar 04, 2003Executive indecisionSubscriber Only
February 18, 2003 00:00 IST
Some time this week Parliament will discuss the question of the government’s executive responsibility for the sins of omission and comm...
Tue, Feb 18, 2003Cowboys in the Wild EastSubscriber Only
February 04, 2003 00:00 IST
A fortnight from now, a summit of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries (NAM) is scheduled. The planned aggression on the sovereign state of...
Tue, Feb 04, 2003Nagaland’s unlikely GandhiSubscriber Only
January 21, 2003 00:00 IST
There is still a way to go. T. Muivah continues to talk of war between ‘India’ and the ‘Nagas’, even when he says the wa...
Tue, Jan 21, 2003Tehelka and the JPCSubscriber Only
January 07, 2003 00:00 IST
Shankar Sharma and Devina Mehra are a husband-and-wife team who met up at management school, went together into business, and built up First...
Tue, Jan 07, 2003Journalism of Courage
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