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Mani Shankar Aiyar
The writer is a former Union minister.
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A Sinhful scamSubscriber Only
December 24, 2002 00:00 IST
Now that the chairman of the Joint Parliamentary Committee, Gen. Prakash Main Tripathi, has denied on the floor of the House that he ever sa...
Tue, Dec 24, 2002The making of Modi’s GujaratSubscriber Only
December 10, 2002 00:00 IST
Armed with the heart-rendering masterpiece, Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy, edited by Siddharth Varadarajan, I have spent the weekend in A...
Tue, Dec 10, 2002BJP and the Hindu stateSubscriber Only
November 26, 2002 00:00 IST
So, who is the real L.K. Advani? The deputy prime minister who says he has no intention of establishing a Hindu state in India? Or the Advan...
Tue, Nov 26, 2002Taming of AmericaSubscriber Only
November 12, 2002 00:00 IST
Cowboy George has been lassoed by the United Nations. Notwithstanding his having won congressional and now electoral approval for his War on...
Tue, Nov 12, 2002What is there to celebrate?Subscriber Only
October 29, 2002 00:00 IST
The Indian Express is perhaps the only newspaper to have carried the full text of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s address to the ...
Tue, Oct 29, 2002Don’t negotiate, adjudicateSubscriber Only
October 15, 2002 00:00 IST
In the week that the chief minister of Karnataka decided to take a long constitutional in preference to respecting the Constitution, the Ind...
Tue, Oct 15, 2002German squawk, American hawkSubscriber Only
October 01, 2002 00:00 IST
The media failed to report last week the single most important piece of news: the World War II had ended! Gerhard Schroeder has won a second...
Tue, Oct 01, 2002In praise of GeorgeSubscriber Only
September 17, 2002 00:00 IST
The proposition that in the soul of every sinner there lurks a saint is well illustrated by the signal service George ‘Tehelka’ Fe...
Tue, Sep 17, 2002Jayalalithaa’s war crySubscriber Only
September 03, 2002 00:00 IST
Jayalalithaa knows better than most that even as her own cinematic origins are irrelevant to her present political standing, so is Sonia Gan...
Tue, Sep 03, 2002Whose mistakes are these?Subscriber Only
August 20, 2002 00:00 IST
When will the prime minister stop treating every public platform as if it were a mushaira? First we had insaniyat ke daire mein as the enunc...
Tue, Aug 20, 2002Desperately searching for PMSubscriber Only
August 06, 2002 00:00 IST
In April 1997, the attorney general requested the Supreme Court to end its hearings on the Cauvery saying the central government had decided...
Tue, Aug 06, 2002A drain inspector’s reportSubscriber Only
July 23, 2002 00:00 IST
Arun Shourie, in his usual thirty thousand words where three hundred would do, has entertained readers of this journal to a three-part expos...
Tue, Jul 23, 2002No more Mr Nice GuySubscriber Only
July 09, 2002 00:00 IST
The BJP has concluded that it cannot possibly go into the next elections on the record of the NDA government. With public disillusionment mo...
Tue, Jul 09, 2002The answers lie withinSubscriber Only
June 25, 2002 00:00 IST
The NDA government has led itself into believing that in the context of the ‘global war on terrorism’, the US-led ‘internatio...
Tue, Jun 25, 2002Jaya and a dying deltaSubscriber Only
June 11, 2002 00:00 IST
In the Cauvery delta, we are not waiting for Pakistan to devastate us; Karnataka is doing the job very nicely, thank you. For the first time...
Tue, Jun 11, 2002Congress finds its anchorSubscriber Only
May 28, 2002 00:00 IST
As one associated with Congress drafting exercises for more years than I care to remember, the striking thing about the Congress session at ...
Tue, May 28, 2002Celebrating Hindu RashtravadSubscriber Only
May 14, 2002 00:00 IST
Against the backdrop of the pogrom in Gujarat, Home Minister L.K. Advani has chosen to name the new airport at Port Blair after V.D. Savarka...
Tue, May 14, 2002For Israel, a Gujarati viewSubscriber Only
April 30, 2002 00:00 IST
Yasser Arafat’s envoy to New Delhi has returned to Gaza City a deeply disillusioned man. The India of Jaswant Singh, he has discovered,...
Tue, Apr 30, 2002Slow turn in GujaratSubscriber Only
April 16, 2002 00:00 IST
Would you not lose your mental balance were you to discover you got it all wrong? “Gandhian socialism” of early-eighties vintage w...
Tue, Apr 16, 2002Fuzzy logic, part twoSubscriber Only
April 02, 2002 00:00 IST
The finance minister’s reply to the general debate on the Budget was as pathetic as the performance of the economy. The key question be...
Tue, Apr 02, 2002Paved with good intentionsSubscriber Only
February 06, 2001 00:00 IST
In his Budget speech for 2000-01, the finance minister announced the biggest programme for rural development this nation has seen: Rs. 250...
Tue, Feb 06, 2001Mocking the RepublicSubscriber Only
January 23, 2001 00:00 IST
It is an irony that the celebration of the 50th anniversary of our Republic is being organised by those who made no contribution to the es...
Tue, Jan 23, 2001Try again, Mr VajpayeeSubscriber Only
January 09, 2001 00:00 IST
Musings need a Muse. The Prime Minister, alas, has only speech-writers. They have served him up a draft infertile in imagination, uncertai...
Tue, Jan 09, 2001Mandir kahan banayenge?Subscriber Only
December 12, 2000 00:00 IST
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the P.C. Sorkar of the spoken word, has done it again. Confronted with the demand that his three indicted ministers ...
Tue, Dec 12, 2000The market trapSubscriber Only
November 28, 2000 00:00 IST
Among the more bizarre ideas floating around for agriculture in the second generation of reforms is that agriculture should be "liber...
Tue, Nov 28, 2000Journalism of Courage
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