The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

September 27, 2005 00:00 IST
It is that time of year when the chinars in the Valley begin to change their colours. There is another prospect of change in the air: change...
Tue, Sep 27, 2005
September 26, 2005 01:26 IST
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has consulted PM Manmohan Singh, Defence Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Home Minister Shivraj Patil on a poss...
Mon, Sep 26, 2005
September 13, 2005 00:24 IST
Misunderstandings between Lal Krishan Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee are not a new phenomenon. People remember the tight expression on Vajp...
Tue, Sep 13, 2005
August 30, 2005 00:15 IST
Rahul Gandhi is back in business. After lying low for many months, he emerged at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s side, during his just-...
Tue, Aug 30, 2005
August 22, 2005 02:12 IST
Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat plans to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh soon to seek the setting up of special courts to try rape...
Mon, Aug 22, 2005
August 18, 2005 02:01 IST
If the Congress thought that Left parties would return to the coordination committee they had boycotted now that Finance Minister P.Chidamba...
Thu, Aug 18, 2005
August 17, 2005 02:02 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is going all the way to Hyderabad this Sunday to attend the 25th anniversary celebrations of the Telugu mouthp...
Wed, Aug 17, 2005
August 16, 2005 00:00 IST
After the new highs touched in his speech to Parliament on the G.T. Nanavati Report, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s address to the nat...
Tue, Aug 16, 2005
August 12, 2005 02:45 IST
Hidden amidst the Nanavati Commission report, the Action Taken Report (ATR) and the Prime Minister’s speech in Rajya Sabha today—h...
Fri, Aug 12, 2005
August 10, 2005 01:49 IST
Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee has taken on his detractors by asserting that it was his ‘‘bounden duty’’ as Speake...
Wed, Aug 10, 2005
August 03, 2005 02:25 IST
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress President Sonia Gandhi have taken a dim view of the way Bihar Governor Buta Singh has handled the...
Wed, Aug 03, 2005
August 02, 2005 00:16 IST
There is tension building up between the prime minister and the Left. Manmohan Singh is reported to be very upset with the Left’s attac...
Tue, Aug 02, 2005
July 28, 2005 02:14 IST
With the violence in Gurgaon doing the Congress image no good, the party swung into a damage control exercise on the eve of a Haryana bandh ...
Thu, Jul 28, 2005
July 19, 2005 00:10 IST
Facing the biggest crisis of his political career because of an attempt to bring about a paradigm shift in the saffron forces, there are ver...
Tue, Jul 19, 2005
July 18, 2005 02:07 IST
You just can’t miss the irony of it all. Guiding L K Advani, once the Sangh’s blue-eyed boy, through the current face-off with the...
Mon, Jul 18, 2005
July 14, 2005 02:39 IST
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayed met Congress chief Sonia Gandhi here last night to draw her attention to the way Home ...
Thu, Jul 14, 2005
July 06, 2005 02:55 IST
When Akshardham and the terrorist attack on Parliament took place, the government and the Opposition stood as one. The fidayeen attack on th...
Wed, Jul 06, 2005
July 05, 2005 00:13 IST
The Imrana case, which has plunged the Muslim community into turmoil, throws up several issues. First is the question where rape is a crime ...
Tue, Jul 05, 2005
June 28, 2005 02:16 IST
In his inimitable Young Turk fashion, former Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar is battling cancer and a team of doctors at the Apollo Hospital ...
Tue, Jun 28, 2005
June 21, 2005 00:00 IST
Whatever happens to him personally, L.K. Advani has shifted the debate in the BJP, the Sangh parivar, and indeed in the subcontinent, on the...
Tue, Jun 21, 2005
June 08, 2005 02:25 IST
The exit of L K Advani as BJP chief over his Jinnah remarks will pave the way for the end of NDA as it has existed. The handling of the ...
Wed, Jun 08, 2005
June 08, 2005 00:00 IST
Those who believe that L.K. Advani was carried away by nostalgia while in Karachi do an injustice to the politician and strategist in him. A...
Wed, Jun 08, 2005
June 05, 2005 01:12 IST
The political grapevine was abuzz again today about a possible Cabinet reshuffle in the coming days, following an hour-long meeting between ...
Sun, Jun 05, 2005
May 23, 2005 00:00 IST
One year in power and Sonia Gandhi continues to hold the UPA together, but the challenges before her, and the Congress, have grown. For all ...
Mon, May 23, 2005
May 21, 2005 02:15 IST
In what could significantly—and pragmatically—push the peace process forward and alter the discourse on Kashmir, Pakistan Presiden...
Sat, May 21, 2005





