The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

July 31, 2004 01:18 IST
Fifty-four MPs from the UPA have written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, urging him to order a CBI inquiry into former Defence Minister Ge...
Sat, Jul 31, 2004
July 26, 2004 00:00 IST
The fact that the prime minister did not know that the Punjab Termination of Agreements Bill, 2004, was in the offing raises serious questio...
Mon, Jul 26, 2004
July 12, 2004 00:00 IST
Disquieting signals are coming from Kashmir after the UPA government took over in Delhi, with battlelines getting sharply drawn between the ...
Mon, Jul 12, 2004
July 03, 2004 01:51 IST
More interesting than the choice of Governors sacked by the President on Friday is the story of those who have been spared the axe.Rajasthan...
Sat, Jul 03, 2004
June 29, 2004 00:00 IST
The TV camera has a way of capturing what a thousand words cannot. Last week there was the image of Atal Bihari Vajpayee coming out of Mumba...
Tue, Jun 29, 2004
June 27, 2004 00:59 IST
It has been decided that Congress President Sonia Gandhi will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh every Saturday evening at his 7, Race Cours...
Sun, Jun 27, 2004
June 15, 2004 00:00 IST
Congress strategist Jairam Ramesh, part of the think tank which put the poll strategy in place, is likely to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha...
Tue, Jun 15, 2004
June 14, 2004 00:00 IST
Last week, when the Parliament session was on, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is learnt to have called L.K. Advani and requested him to allow...
Mon, Jun 14, 2004
June 11, 2004 00:00 IST
There are indications that Najma Heptulla, now that she has been nominated by the BJP for the June 28 election to the Upper House, would exp...
Fri, Jun 11, 2004
June 01, 2004 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh is thinking of appointing a couple of young parliamentary secretaries to the PM who will coordinate with sp...
Tue, Jun 01, 2004
May 31, 2004 00:00 IST
Let's face it. The success of this experiment called the UPA depends on the kind of working relationship that Manmohan Singh and Sonia Gandh...
Mon, May 31, 2004
May 17, 2004 00:00 IST
What could not have been imagined even a week ago, has happened. Sonia Gandhi is all set to become the prime minister of India. The BJP beca...
Mon, May 17, 2004
May 16, 2004 00:00 IST
That Sonia’s janmabhoomi will be an issue for the BJP was clear soon after the party’s defeat—and the campaign has begun. BJP...
Sun, May 16, 2004
May 15, 2004 00:00 IST
There were indications today that Sharad Pawar is prepared to work under Sonia Gandhi, giving up, for all practical purposes, his objections...
Sat, May 15, 2004
May 12, 2004 00:00 IST
The Prime Minister is believed to have given his go-ahead for the NDA to make a determined bid to form a government even if it falls short o...
Wed, May 12, 2004
May 11, 2004 00:00 IST
Counting the chickens before they are hatched on May 13, both the BJP and the Congress have begun to send feelers to smaller parties now tha...
Tue, May 11, 2004
May 03, 2004 00:00 IST
Sometimes politics is based on pure speculation. Nothing proves this more than the fact that several post-poll moves have already been initi...
Mon, May 03, 2004
April 24, 2004 00:00 IST
The flip-flop-flip Ram Jethmalani, who is back in the contest against Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Lucknow, has claimed that he wa...
Sat, Apr 24, 2004
April 19, 2004 00:00 IST
Nothing pierced the feel-good hype, nothing demonstrated the strange kind of unreality that has existed in this election, or highlighted the...
Mon, Apr 19, 2004
April 17, 2004 00:00 IST
Yesterday, Ram Jethmalani vowed to take on A.B. Vajpayee, threatening to put the PM ‘‘in the dock’’ and dubbing the NDA ...
Sat, Apr 17, 2004
April 05, 2004 00:00 IST
Is the new avatar of the BJP — that is coming to the fore in this election campaign — a transient phenomenon, or does it point to ...
Mon, Apr 05, 2004
March 22, 2004 00:00 IST
The controversial former commissioner of Pune, Arun Bhatia, has decided to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Pune as an independent. Narm...
Mon, Mar 22, 2004
March 19, 2004 00:00 IST
With its dreams of an alliance with Mayawati evaporating and a tie-up with the JMM in Jharkhand coming to nought, the Congress has now sudde...
Fri, Mar 19, 2004
March 09, 2004 00:00 IST
Elections 2004 will mark a transition in more ways than one. This is likely to be the last time that an entire generation of leaders, leader...
Tue, Mar 09, 2004
March 05, 2004 00:00 IST
There are indications that the Congress might not give a ticket to former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao to contest for the Lok Sabha ele...
Fri, Mar 05, 2004


