The writer is a former Union minister.
November 30, 1999 00:00 IST
The Prime Minister is talking arrant nonsense when he says his government can do nothing about deleting Rajiv Gandhi's name from the list...
Tue, Nov 30, 1999November 30, 1999 00:00 IST
The Prime Minister is talking arrant nonsense when he says his government can do nothing about deleting Rajiv Gandhi's name from the list...
Tue, Nov 30, 1999November 16, 1999 00:00 IST
From the soil of Hindu-majority India, the Pope has called for evangelising Asia. Even as the first millennium witnessed the Christianisa...
Tue, Nov 16, 1999November 02, 1999 00:00 IST
The most intriguing of the three payments made by Bofors is the one involving Quattrocchi. Some seven million dollars went to him, it see...
Tue, Nov 02, 1999October 19, 1999 00:00 IST
As we were grinding our way through our thirteenth general election, China was celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of its Revolution. Th...
Tue, Oct 19, 1999July 27, 1999 00:00 IST
In the week that the election results were announced in June 1991, the Cauvery waters Tribunal announced its interim award. Eight years a...
Tue, Jul 27, 1999July 13, 1999 00:00 IST
Now that it looks as if our jawans have done a splendid job of wrapping up the war and ridding our side of the Line of Control of the Pak...
Tue, Jul 13, 1999June 29, 1999 00:00 IST
The battle of Kargil is being won by our boys. And by the Bofors gun. We almost did not have the gun. Had the fainthearts been listened t...
Tue, Jun 29, 1999June 15, 1999 00:00 IST
Spokespersons of the ruling coalition have questioned the civic responsibility and, obliquely, even the patriotism, of opposition politic...
Tue, Jun 15, 1999June 01, 1999 00:00 IST
Are we at war? No, says Raksha Mantri George Fernandes, not at war. Then, at peace? No, not quite at peace either, somewhere in between. ...
Tue, Jun 01, 1999May 18, 1999 00:00 IST
Dear Friends,His trusted colleagues who stab-bed Julius Caesar in the back did so on the 15th of March the Ides of March. You have chosen...
Tue, May 18, 1999May 18, 1999 00:00 IST
Dear Friends,His trusted colleagues who stab-bed Julius Caesar in the back did so on the 15th of March the Ides of March. You have chosen...
Tue, May 18, 1999May 04, 1999 00:00 IST
The BJP-led coalition was united on two occasions: when it won the vote of confidence in March 1998 and when it lost the vote of confiden...
Tue, May 04, 1999April 20, 1999 00:00 IST
During the debate that en-ded in the ouster of the Vajpa-yee government, the Treasury benches set out the key elements of the Vajpayee le...
Tue, Apr 20, 1999April 06, 1999 00:00 IST
We have heard of the armed forces running a coup d'etat against the government. To the BJP goes the credit of being the first government ...
Tue, Apr 06, 1999March 23, 1999 00:00 IST
For a full year, the BJP-led government has been sustained by Sonia Gandhi. Where almost any other Congress leader would have been tempte...
Tue, Mar 23, 1999February 24, 1999 00:00 IST
The lotus grows out of muck. It is the symbol of the BJP. It is also symbolic of the BJP's present problem. Remove the muck and the lotus...
Wed, Feb 24, 1999February 23, 1999 00:00 IST
The lotus grows out of muck. It is the symbol of the BJP. It is also symbolic of the BJP's present problem. Remove the muck and the lotus...
Tue, Feb 23, 1999February 23, 1999 00:00 IST
The lotus grows out of muck. It is the symbol of the BJP. It is also symbolic of the BJP's present problem. Remove the muck and the lotus...
Tue, Feb 23, 1999February 09, 1999 00:00 IST
Twisting and turning, the Prime Minister asks one day for a national debate on conversions, then switches to suggesting that the matter b...
Tue, Feb 09, 1999February 09, 1999 00:00 IST
Twisting and turning, the Prime Minister asks one day for a national debate on conversions, then switches to suggesting that the matter b...
Tue, Feb 09, 1999January 26, 1999 00:00 IST
Secularism, as a way of life, is the celebration of diversity in religion. Secularism, as a Constitutional imperative, is the dissociatio...
Tue, Jan 26, 1999January 12, 1999 00:00 IST
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh hit the nail on the head when he said on the occasion of the release of his state's Human De...
Tue, Jan 12, 1999December 29, 1998 00:00 IST
Soon after the passing away of K. Kamaraj in October 1975, G.K. Moopanar brought the breakaway Congress (O) back into the Congress fold. ...
Tue, Dec 29, 1998December 29, 1998 00:00 IST
Soon after the passing away of K. Kamaraj in October 1975, G.K. Moopanar brought the breakaway Congress (O) back into the Congress fold. ...
Tue, Dec 29, 1998