The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

February 04, 2003 00:00 IST
Even as Mulayam Singh Yadav ruled out the formation of a front with the Congress, the latter is moving towards consolidating anti-BJP forces...
Tue, Feb 04, 2003
February 03, 2003 00:00 IST
It came as no surprise in Delhi’s political circles that the Congress party in Uttar Pradesh had split. Some of the MLAs who left had l...
Mon, Feb 03, 2003
February 01, 2003 00:00 IST
Opposition parties have joined hands with intellectuals, academicians and artists among others to launch a People’s Integration Council...
Sat, Feb 01, 2003
January 30, 2003 00:00 IST
Today's reshuffle has added some gloss to the Hindutva agenda of the Sangh Parivar that is being considered an important ingredient for elec...
Thu, Jan 30, 2003
January 28, 2003 00:00 IST
A three per cent swing may very well decide the electoral battle in Himachal Pradesh and this could explain why the BJP was in such a hurry ...
Tue, Jan 28, 2003
January 23, 2003 00:00 IST
The leaders of NSCN (I-M), Isak Swu and T. Muivah, are believed to have expressed their deep unhappiness over the Prime Minister’s repo...
Thu, Jan 23, 2003
January 20, 2003 00:00 IST
To see Sushree Mayawati pose before Ambedkar’s life-size statue on her 47th birthday, well-turned out in a pink salwar kameez — a ...
Mon, Jan 20, 2003
January 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Hope, as they say, is the best breakfast but a bad supper. The familiar hullabaloo at 10 Janpath, official residence of party chief Sonia Ga...
Sun, Jan 19, 2003
January 19, 2003 00:00 IST
Emotions overtook politics when the NSCN(I-M) delegation, including its two senior leaders T. Muivah and Isaak Swu, met 27 MPs cutting acros...
Sun, Jan 19, 2003
January 13, 2003 00:00 IST
Sharad Pawar’s proposal for a pre-poll alliance with the Congress and the softening of his stance towards Sonia Gandhi last week is goo...
Mon, Jan 13, 2003
January 08, 2003 00:00 IST
In the run-up to the do-or-die assembly elections, Sonia Gandhi is unlikely to make any changes in the leadership of her party in the states...
Wed, Jan 08, 2003
January 06, 2003 00:00 IST
It is clear that Prime Minister Vajpayee has tried, through his New Year eve musings, to blunt the edge of the weapon that his party wielded...
Mon, Jan 06, 2003
December 23, 2002 00:00 IST
Ther Gujarat results are not only a defining moment for the BJP and the Congress, but for Sonia Gandhi as well. With the BJP bent upon using...
Mon, Dec 23, 2002
December 20, 2002 00:00 IST
The Congress, shell-shocked by the Gujarat results, is in a fix over how it should counter what Sonia Gandhi described today as the BJP’...
Fri, Dec 20, 2002
December 16, 2002 00:00 IST
The challenge before the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister is to do a tightrope walk which keeps the the NDA coalition intact and...
Mon, Dec 16, 2002
December 03, 2002 00:00 IST
It was a repeat of the swearing-in ceremony of Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. As on November 2, so also today, no Union Minister from the BJP or the...
Tue, Dec 03, 2002
November 28, 2002 00:00 IST
Drought relief has become a hot potato not just between the Government and the opposition but also inside the ruling alliance. Sharp differe...
Thu, Nov 28, 2002
November 26, 2002 00:00 IST
Prime Minister A B Vajpayee is said to have advised Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohamed Sayeed to go easy on the release of polit...
Tue, Nov 26, 2002
November 19, 2002 00:00 IST
Though Vice President Bhairon Singh Shekhawat can boast of friends across party lines, and that was responsible for his impressive victory w...
Tue, Nov 19, 2002
November 11, 2002 00:00 IST
Last week Ghulam Nabi Azad reciprocated the gesture Farooq Abdullah once made for him. It was with the National Conference’s support th...
Mon, Nov 11, 2002
November 07, 2002 00:00 IST
The new Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Mufti Mohammed Sayeed, has decided not to move into the palatial bungalow that had begun to be ...
Thu, Nov 07, 2002
November 03, 2002 00:00 IST
As the changing colour of the chinar leaves pointed to a new season outside the Sher-e-Kashmir International Centre, inside the imposing bui...
Sun, Nov 03, 2002
October 29, 2002 00:00 IST
The immediate challenge before Mufti Mohammed Sayed, all set to take over as the CM of Jammu and Kashmir, is to bring a healing touch to his...
Tue, Oct 29, 2002
October 29, 2002 00:00 IST
Even before a triumphant Mufti Mohammed Sayeed arrived in Srinagar, the Chief Minister designate had started giving thought to who would be ...
Tue, Oct 29, 2002
October 27, 2002 00:00 IST
All set to form a government in J-K with the PDP, which will be the 15th state to be ruled by the Congress, the party has firmly set itself ...
Sun, Oct 27, 2002


