The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

October 23, 2002 00:00 IST
Defence Minister George Fernandes, the man who described China as Enemy Number One, is now going to visit Beijing. This is probably his firs...
Wed, Oct 23, 2002
October 14, 2002 00:00 IST
Opportunities such as the one thrown up by the J&K elections come but rarely in the life of a nation. Never has there been such a favourable...
Mon, Oct 14, 2002
October 11, 2002 00:00 IST
Now that J&K polls 2002 are over, sweeping aside entrenched National Conference and bringing to power Congress probably for the first time t...
Fri, Oct 11, 2002
October 09, 2002 00:00 IST
While the unusual nature of the lunch hosted by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee for President APJ Abdul Kalam has prompted criticism of ...
Wed, Oct 09, 2002
October 08, 2002 00:00 IST
Before he left for his Europe tour today, the Prime Minister is said to have read the reforms riot act to his recalcitrant Ministers Mssrs G...
Tue, Oct 08, 2002
September 30, 2002 00:00 IST
Narendra Modi has given the credit to the ‘pseudo secularists’ and their restraint in the choice of language for the comparative p...
Mon, Sep 30, 2002
September 16, 2002 00:00 IST
There is a story in Arthur Hailey’s book, In High Places, which makes the point I want to make here quite tellingly. There is a stowawa...
Mon, Sep 16, 2002
September 04, 2002 00:00 IST
It's politics more than economics that’s behind Defence Minister George Fernandes’s aggressive stand against the disinvestment of ...
Wed, Sep 04, 2002
September 02, 2002 00:00 IST
The more relevant aspect of the issue regarding the foreign origins of Sonia Gandhi, which Jayalalithaa has raked up suddenly, is why she ha...
Mon, Sep 02, 2002
August 26, 2002 00:00 IST
K R Narayanan, who completed his term as President last month after a lot of speculation that he may get a second term till Abdul Kalam e...
Mon, Aug 26, 2002
August 19, 2002 00:00 IST
So far it was only the BJP wanting to be a party with a difference. Now L.K. Advani has vowed to make the ruling dispensation a government w...
Mon, Aug 19, 2002
August 18, 2002 00:00 IST
The petrol-pump scam, revelations of the Government’s favouritism in land allotments in the capital, and now the dirt kicked up in the ...
Sun, Aug 18, 2002
August 14, 2002 00:00 IST
Though the BJP is furious with the Chief Election Commissioner J M Lyngdoh for his public outburst in Gujarat, it’s been forced to clim...
Wed, Aug 14, 2002
August 10, 2002 00:00 IST
As the Opposition plays the Dalit card for the Vice-Presidential polls scheduled for August 12, NDA candidate Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has pu...
Sat, Aug 10, 2002
August 05, 2002 00:00 IST
THE other day, Cho Ramaswamy was speaking on Gujarat in Parliament, and one of the MPs remarked disdainfully, ‘‘Look at the passio...
Mon, Aug 05, 2002
July 29, 2002 00:00 IST
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has reportedly given informal instructions that all bureaucratic appointments, recruitments and transfer...
Mon, Jul 29, 2002
July 28, 2002 00:00 IST
In the gloom which gripped the establishment today following the death of Vice-President Krishan Kant in his sleep early this morning, there...
Sun, Jul 28, 2002
July 28, 2002 00:00 IST
It is not without irony that the all-party meet on electoral reforms slated for Sautrday should be put off following the death of the man wh...
Sun, Jul 28, 2002
July 25, 2002 00:00 IST
There are signs of a difference of opinion between the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister on the timing of polls in Gujarat. The P...
Thu, Jul 25, 2002
July 22, 2002 00:00 IST
Because of political compulsions of the Centre, the elections in Gujarat and Jammu and Kashmir have got linked and the latter seems set to g...
Mon, Jul 22, 2002
July 19, 2002 00:00 IST
At last, some signs of a disagreement between A P J Abdul Kalam and the Government: two weeks ago, Kalam told the Government that he wasn...
Fri, Jul 19, 2002
July 18, 2002 00:00 IST
This is the first time in the recent past that the opening week of a Parliament session has got off to so quiet a start. Not that the Opposi...
Thu, Jul 18, 2002
July 15, 2002 00:00 IST
While the BJP was going in for a massive shake-up and the government acquiring a new purposefulness with the appointment of the deputy prime...
Mon, Jul 15, 2002
July 10, 2002 00:00 IST
P C Alexander’s sudden decision to step down as Governor of Maharashtra is seen as a protest against the shabby way in which the NDA du...
Wed, Jul 10, 2002
July 02, 2002 00:00 IST
The Prime Minister’s mid-term reshuffle of the Cabinet and the organisation will strengthen the Government in the short run and the BJP...
Tue, Jul 02, 2002



