The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

November 01, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 31: There were no more than a dozen people in Parliament's Central Hall today to offer tributes to Sardar Patel on his 125t...
Wed, Nov 01, 2000
October 30, 2000 00:00 IST
The CPM has moved a little too late in the day to rectify the party's 1996 "historic blunder", which had prevented Jyoti Basu fr...
Mon, Oct 30, 2000
October 24, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 23: As a delighted BJP gets ready to wrest yet another state, Goa, from the Sonia Gandhi-led Congress, the latter has o...
Tue, Oct 24, 2000
October 18, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 17: The RSS is coming to occupy the Opposition space in the country's politics. That is the significance of the just held M...
Wed, Oct 18, 2000
October 17, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 16: The RSS is coming to occupy the Opposition space in the country's politics. That is the significance of the just held M...
Tue, Oct 17, 2000
October 16, 2000 00:00 IST
Mamata Banerjee had almost hit the jackpot when she quit the Vajpayee ministry on the price hike issue. But she lost it all with one swift...
Mon, Oct 16, 2000
October 13, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Oct 12: ``Regional'' anaesthesia which Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee was administered during his knee operation turned out to be...
Fri, Oct 13, 2000
October 03, 2000 00:00 IST
NAGPUR, OCT 2: The sixteen month, ten-day old Nationalist Congress Party is positioning itself like the Janata Dal of yesteryears, a natio...
Tue, Oct 03, 2000
October 03, 2000 00:00 IST
NAGPUR, OCT 2: The sixteen-month-ten-day-old Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) is positioning itself like the Janata Dal of yesteryears, a ...
Tue, Oct 03, 2000
October 02, 2000 00:00 IST
Is the BJP becoming a BCP -- Bharatiya Congress Party? Recent events suggest so. When people talk about the Congressisation of the BJP, th...
Mon, Oct 02, 2000
September 30, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 29: The Chanakya of Indian politics was left stunned on Friday when special judge Ajit Bharihoke walked into the crow...
Sat, Sep 30, 2000
September 28, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, SEPT 27: Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Ajit Singh's Lok Dal and H.D. Deve Gowda's Janata Dal have made commo...
Thu, Sep 28, 2000
September 21, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 20: Whoever controls Uttar Pradesh controls India. Whoever controls the Congress in UP is likely to control the Congr...
Thu, Sep 21, 2000
September 18, 2000 00:00 IST
If the NDA government is contemplating something as foolish as an ordinance to declare five districts of West Bengal as disturbed, which i...
Mon, Sep 18, 2000
September 12, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, SEPT 11: The stage is set for the reinduction of Sushma Swaraj, maybe even Uma Bharati, in the Union Cabinet.They are expected ...
Tue, Sep 12, 2000
September 02, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, SEPT 1: Sonia Gandhi had asked Manmohan Singh to represent the Congress at the millennium meet organised by the Inter-Parliamen...
Sat, Sep 02, 2000
August 31, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 30: The Bharatiya Janata Party's overture to Muslims at Nagpur is a calculated attempt to win over the liberal Hindus and n...
Thu, Aug 31, 2000
August 30, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 29: The BJP is now looking for a new support base everywhere, but particularly in Uttar Pradesh where elections are due nex...
Wed, Aug 30, 2000
August 30, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 29: The BJP's overture to Muslims at Nagpur is a calculated attempt to win over the liberal Hindus and not so much the m...
Wed, Aug 30, 2000
August 27, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 26: BJP leader Uma Bharti has taken off for Kedarnath in the Himalayas instead of heading for Nagpur, where the BJP's Natio...
Sun, Aug 27, 2000
August 22, 2000 00:00 IST
People’s confidence in the health delivery system has been shaken by P.R. Kumaramangalam's illness. If a Union minister...
Tue, Aug 22, 2000
August 19, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 18: The demand for a strong action against Pakistan has been revived following the withdrawal of ceasefire by the Hizbul Mu...
Sat, Aug 19, 2000
August 18, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 17: Among the absentees in the Rajya Sabha today when the much-touted Eighty-Eighth Constitution Amendment for Scheduled Ca...
Fri, Aug 18, 2000
August 05, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 4: The possibility of a meeting between Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and Pakistan Chief Executive Pervez Musharraf i...
Sat, Aug 05, 2000
August 03, 2000 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 2: The stage is now set for the creation of Chhatisgarh, Uttaranchal and Jharkhand, with the Lok Sabha passing the Bihar...
Thu, Aug 03, 2000





