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Mani Shankar Aiyar
The writer is a former Union minister.
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Road to nowhereSubscriber Only
November 14, 2000 00:00 IST
The Vajpayee governmnet's chief contribution to poverty alleviation has been to rechristen existing rural development programmes with fanc...
Tue, Nov 14, 2000Clueless in GazaSubscriber Only
October 31, 2000 00:00 IST
It is not a question of peace. It is a question of justice. What Clinton and Barak are hoping to screw out of Arafat is tranquility in exc...
Tue, Oct 31, 2000The row over RaoSubscriber Only
October 17, 2000 00:00 IST
The BJP has the gall to describe the Congress abiding by the processes of the law as ``shameful''. Had the Congress gone on the rampage, t...
Tue, Oct 17, 2000In the name of divestmentSubscriber Only
October 03, 2000 00:00 IST
The private sector is efficient, the public sector is not. That, at bottom, is the most persuasive argument for disinvestment.The Standing...
Tue, Oct 03, 2000A Cauvery yatraSubscriber Only
September 19, 2000 00:00 IST
The kuruvai (kharif) crop is in. The fields of the Cauvery delta lie fallow, waiting to be regenerated. The farmers' memory has to stretch...
Tue, Sep 19, 2000Filling bellies, mythicallySubscriber Only
September 05, 2000 00:00 IST
The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) can hardly compete for family entertainment with Kaun Banega Crorepati. But if we might take a min...
Tue, Sep 05, 2000Rajiv, Rajesh, Ranga — Where have all the young men gone?Subscriber Only
August 25, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 24: It was to have been the generation that would ready the country for the 21st century. ``The question of the leadersh...
Fri, Aug 25, 2000Krishnamurthy vindicatedSubscriber Only
August 22, 2000 00:00 IST
Readers with long memories would recall that eight long years ago, back in July 1992, as the Harshad Mehta-related banking and securities ...
Tue, Aug 22, 2000Globalisation and the safai karamchariSubscriber Only
August 08, 2000 00:00 IST
We live in filth, surrounded by filth. Our cities are dirty, our towns even worse. Garbage removal and disposal, solid waste management, s...
Tue, Aug 08, 2000A worm’s eye viewSubscriber Only
July 25, 2000 00:00 IST
I have spent the last two weeks in my constituency, travelling every evening to about a dozen hamlets, mostly Adi Dravidar cheris (dalit h...
Tue, Jul 25, 2000Minister’s balderdashSubscriber Only
July 11, 2000 00:00 IST
Jaswant Singh is the only minister in this government with whom one can, or would want to, settle down to a drink. Which is what makes one...
Tue, Jul 11, 2000Pulled in 24 directionsSubscriber Only
June 27, 2000 00:00 IST
IF the government were honest they would say the only clear reason they have for selling off the family silver is that they've fallen on b...
Tue, Jun 27, 2000Eelam, Czech, SlovakSubscriber Only
June 13, 2000 00:00 IST
Tamil Nadu chief ministers like being festooned with honorary doctorates, a fashion set in train by the current incumbent. This is aimed, ...
Tue, Jun 13, 2000After the clouds, the ladySubscriber Only
May 30, 2000 00:00 IST
Just hold on to one thought as you read through this article: the 1991 interim award of the Cauvery Tribunal not only provided for Karnata...
Tue, May 30, 2000Relevance of devolutionSubscriber Only
May 16, 2000 00:00 IST
There are only two solutions to the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka partitionor devolution. Partition would mean a two-nation theory for the i...
Tue, May 16, 2000Irrational expectationsSubscriber Only
May 02, 2000 00:00 IST
The `Rational Expectations' column in this paper last week put hire-and-firelabour laws at the top of the reforms agenda, the gravamen of ...
Tue, May 02, 2000It’s poetry, not diplomacySubscriber Only
April 18, 2000 00:00 IST
You can kick Pakistan out of the Commonwealth. You can kick it out of NAM. You could even, at a pinch, kick it out of G-77 (on the grounds...
Tue, Apr 18, 2000What a poor recordSubscriber Only
April 04, 2000 00:00 IST
The last year of the last millennium was the worst in recent years for the poorest of the poor. The Economic Survey, submitted on the eve ...
Tue, Apr 04, 2000The limits of reformsSubscriber Only
March 21, 2000 00:00 IST
MARCH 20: It is evident from the Finance Minister's reply to the general debate on the Budget that it is only a matter of time before he r...
Tue, Mar 21, 2000The fruits of reformsSubscriber Only
March 10, 2000 00:00 IST
The last decade of socialism was 1980-90. And the next decade, 1990-2000, constitutes, broadly, the first decade of reforms. The Economic ...
Fri, Mar 10, 2000Vajpayee’s Lakshman RekhaSubscriber Only
February 22, 2000 00:00 IST
It would suit Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee very well indeed were the RSS to be a purely ``socio-cultural'' organisation. They could...
Tue, Feb 22, 2000Disinvestment, saffron styleSubscriber Only
January 11, 2000 00:00 IST
When CPI Rajya Sabha member Gurudas Gupta accused the finance minister of selling the family jewellery to pay the grocer's bill, an indign...
Tue, Jan 11, 2000Looking back in yearningSubscriber Only
December 28, 1999 00:00 IST
While almost everyone I know is looking forward to the coming millennium, I find myself looking back in yearning to an India that is now s...
Tue, Dec 28, 1999The Kalyan effectSubscriber Only
December 16, 1999 00:00 IST
When he saw the gallows being readied, Kalyan Singh betook himself to Ayodhya, there to hold communion, one-on-one, with Ram lalla, the ch...
Thu, Dec 16, 1999The Kalyan effectSubscriber Only
December 15, 1999 00:00 IST
When he saw the gallows being readied, Kalyan Singh betook himself to Ayodhya, there to hold communion, one-on-one, with Ram lalla, the ch...
Wed, Dec 15, 1999Journalism of Courage
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