The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

July 01, 2002 00:00 IST
The elevation of L K Advani as Deputy Prime Minister is part of an offensive by the Sangh Parivar and the Hindutva brigade in the BJP which ...
Mon, Jul 01, 2002
July 01, 2002 00:00 IST
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad has made a case for the division of J&K but, thank God, the Shankaracharya of Kanchi has opposed it. The idea has ...
Mon, Jul 01, 2002
June 30, 2002 00:00 IST
THE book brings together essays on the decline of the Congress, the dramatic growth of the BJP and the Hindutva forces, the rise and the con...
Sun, Jun 30, 2002
June 22, 2002 00:00 IST
Gujarat has brought former union minister Ram Vilas Paswan and Arif Mohammed Khan onto the same platform. And the Dalit-Muslim combination t...
Sat, Jun 22, 2002
June 17, 2002 00:00 IST
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was a googly thrown by the NDA and it clean bowled the Opposition. Not only did it throw its ranks into disarray, it divi...
Mon, Jun 17, 2002
June 10, 2002 00:00 IST
The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) today indefinitely deferred its meeting to finalise P.C. Alexander’s candidature as Presi...
Mon, Jun 10, 2002
June 09, 2002 00:00 IST
Atal Behari Vajpayee is all for a consensus on who the next President should be, read Krishan Kant. But for the first time ever, the Prime M...
Sun, Jun 09, 2002
June 07, 2002 00:00 IST
Vice President Krishan Kant, considered the outsider in the presidential sweepstakes, is emerging as the front-runner with a growing feeling...
Fri, Jun 07, 2002
June 03, 2002 00:00 IST
The critics of Laloo Prasad Yadav, who have taken umbrage at the grand scale on which he celebrated his second daughter Rohini’s weddin...
Mon, Jun 03, 2002
May 31, 2002 00:00 IST
At the end of his meeting with K R Narayanan today, in which he briefed the President on the Indo-Pak stand-off, Prime Minister Atal Behari ...
Fri, May 31, 2002
May 31, 2002 00:00 IST
In a signal that it could be toning down its position on war against Pakistan, the BJP today urged the Government to take hard diplomatic st...
Fri, May 31, 2002
May 26, 2002 00:00 IST
Arun Singh is coming back to the Ministry of External Affairs as Security Advisor to Jaswant Singh, and his return to his old job — whi...
Sun, May 26, 2002
May 26, 2002 00:00 IST
The killings of 34 people at Kaluchak on May 14, horrific as they were, have proved to be an important watershed in India’s fight again...
Sun, May 26, 2002
May 20, 2002 00:00 IST
The golden jubilee celebration of Parliament last week was a memorable event and the ambience of the new Library building in which it was he...
Mon, May 20, 2002
May 18, 2002 00:00 IST
The Government may not have disclosed in Parliament what action it proposed to take in the aftermath of the Jammu massacre but it is very cl...
Sat, May 18, 2002
May 16, 2002 00:00 IST
With temperatures rising in New Delhi over yesterday’s Jammu attack and what is being seen as Washington’s soft line on Pakistan, ...
Thu, May 16, 2002
May 12, 2002 00:00 IST
The RSS is reportedly preparing a written document on its evaluation of the last two and a half years of the BJP rule and an advisory on wha...
Sun, May 12, 2002
May 06, 2002 00:00 IST
If I had been an inmate in one of the refugee camps in Ahmedabad watching the debate on Gujarat in the Lok Sabha last Tuesday, I would have ...
Mon, May 06, 2002
May 05, 2002 00:00 IST
On the face of it, there is no threat to the NDA coalition. Last week, it sailed through a censure motion, winning it by a whopping 94 votes...
Sun, May 05, 2002
May 05, 2002 00:00 IST
While the debate on Gujarat has demonstrated that arithmetic still favours A.B. Vajpayee, it has also made some things clear on the forthco...
Sun, May 05, 2002
April 30, 2002 00:00 IST
Uttar Pradesh signalled his marginalisation within the NDA as a dalit leader of consequence and Gujarat provided a defining moment for Ram V...
Tue, Apr 30, 2002
April 22, 2002 00:00 IST
Indian politics is full of paradoxes. As the main opposition party, the Congress should have been interested in toppling the Vajpayee govern...
Mon, Apr 22, 2002
April 18, 2002 00:00 IST
The celebration of Chandrashekhar’s 75th birthday today by his friends and former colleagues comes when Indian politics is once again i...
Thu, Apr 18, 2002
February 06, 2001 00:00 IST
There are moments in a nation’s life that leave behind more than a transient impression on the peopleâ€&trad...
Tue, Feb 06, 2001
February 05, 2001 00:00 IST
There are moments in a nation’s life that leave behind more than a transient impression on the peopleâ€&trad...
Mon, Feb 05, 2001



