The writer is a former Union minister.
December 15, 1998 00:00 IST
Newspaper reports tell of a briefing by a senior official of the Prime Minister's Office (no prizes for guessing who) at which it was sta...
December 01, 1998 00:00 IST
The vogue now is ``anti-incumbency''. It is a convenient way of escaping the rigours of thinking things through. Of course, democracy is ...
November 17, 1998 00:00 IST
We seem to be about to get a bus to Pakistan. Better, of course, than another Train to Pakistan. But not much more. With the eyes of the wor...
November 03, 1998 00:00 IST
Atal Behari Vajpayee in the opening speech of his electoral campaign in Udaipur cited the alleged resolution of the thirty-year-old Cauvery ...
October 19, 1998 00:00 IST
If not among the best, I was certainly among the first of Amartya Sen's students. He began lecturing on welfare economics at Cambridge th...
October 06, 1998 00:00 IST
For Indian prime ministers who double as their own foreign ministers, September is the month for grandstanding. The Non-aligned or the Co...
September 22, 1998 00:00 IST
The much-pilloried Romesh Bhandari, former governor of Uttar Pradesh, is now joined at the stocks by another Bhan-dari, S.S., present Gov...
September 08, 1998 00:00 IST
With the Congress at Pachmarhi having resiled from support to the Consti-tution (84th Amendment) Bill ``as it is'' to ``passage with the ...
March 02, 1998 00:00 IST
If walls have votes, I've lost these elections. For thousands upon thousands of meters of wall space along the axial roads that criss-cross ...
December 19, 1997 00:00 IST
December 18: The Indian Express lead story headline in the second of its series entitled ``Jain Jumble'' read: ``Rajiv said he would secure...
December 13, 1997 00:00 IST
Immediately on reading the endeavours of The Indian Express to jumble the Jain Commission Report, I contacted retired Gen Amar S Kalkat, fo...
May 28, 1997 00:00 IST
With his Leninist goatee, SFI background and years in Moscow, Inder Kumar Gujral would need no lessons in what makes a Molotov cocktail. Na...
May 21, 1997 00:00 IST
When Elvis Presley wowed the world with his ``I don wanna be a Tiger / For Tigers play too rough'', I rather doubt that he had in mind Jogi...
May 07, 1997 00:00 IST
My column last week was datelined Colombo and was about one kind of Tiger. My column this week is datelined Jakarta and is about a quite di...
