The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

October 19, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 18: Amongst the first political initiatives by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is an attempt to win over the Jats who ...
Tue, Oct 19, 1999
October 19, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 18: Amongst the first political initiatives by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is an attempt to win over the Jats who ...
Tue, Oct 19, 1999
October 18, 1999 00:00 IST
With the elections over, the question on the people's mind now is: How stable is the Vajpayee government?On the plus side is the arithmet...
Mon, Oct 18, 1999
October 17, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 16; Deposed as Congress president a-year-and-a-half ago, Sitaram Kesri has fired his first salvo against what he calls the...
Sun, Oct 17, 1999
October 14, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 13: Sonia Gandhi's election as the chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) on Tuesday may have gone off with...
Thu, Oct 14, 1999
October 13, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 12: Sonia Gandhi's election as the chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) on Tuesday may have gone off with...
Wed, Oct 13, 1999
October 09, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 8: The Prime Minister is understood to be giving the utmost attention to who should man the economic ministries in his new...
Sat, Oct 09, 1999
October 08, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 7: There is a patch-up effort on to bring together the Congress and the NCP with a view to forming a secular government in...
Fri, Oct 08, 1999
October 08, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, OCT 7: There is a patch-up effort on to bring together the Congress and the NCP with a view to forming a secular government in...
Fri, Oct 08, 1999
October 04, 1999 00:00 IST
Elections '99 underscore the paradigm shift that has visibly taken place in political representation.Communities have become more conscio...
Mon, Oct 04, 1999
September 20, 1999 00:00 IST
The paradoxes of Indian politics never cease to amaze. Sonia Gandhi will become prime minister if the Congress gets a majority, or if the...
Mon, Sep 20, 1999
September 19, 1999 00:00 IST
When reporters asked Sonia whether like Sushma Swaraj, she would be speaking in Kannada in Bellary, it was Priyanka who immediately shot ...
Sun, Sep 19, 1999
September 06, 1999 00:00 IST
The 1999 elections are characterised by a growing fragmentation of the polity. At the same time, there is greater bipolarity than ever be...
Mon, Sep 06, 1999
August 28, 1999 00:00 IST
BELLARY, AUG 27: In what constitutes a significant shift in the position of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi indicated today that the party wou...
Sat, Aug 28, 1999
August 28, 1999 00:00 IST
BELLARY, AUG 27: In what constitutes a significant shift in the position of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi indicated today that the party wou...
Sat, Aug 28, 1999
August 22, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 21: Dissatisfied with the neglect of women by the Congress's selection committees, party president Sonia Gandhi is believe...
Sun, Aug 22, 1999
August 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 19: While the decision to field Sushma Swaraj from Bellary was the idea of Rama Krishna Hegde and N Venkiah Naidu, the `op...
Fri, Aug 20, 1999
August 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 19: While the decision to field Sushma Swaraj from Bellary was the idea of Rama Krishna Hegde and N Venkiah Naidu, the `op...
Fri, Aug 20, 1999
August 16, 1999 00:00 IST
When the Vajpayee government sought a vote of confidence in April this year, L.K. Advani had opened his speech by citing the example of G...
Mon, Aug 16, 1999
August 13, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 12: Manmohan Singh has finally graduated from being a bureaucrat-technocrat to a master of realpolitik, as he is all se...
Fri, Aug 13, 1999
August 13, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 12: Manmohan Singh has finally graduated from being a bureaucrat-technocrat to a master of realpolitik, as he is all se...
Fri, Aug 13, 1999
August 11, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Aug 10: Amethi may not be the only place from where Sonia Gandhi will contest. The Congress has zeroed in on Bellary in Karnat...
Wed, Aug 11, 1999
August 11, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, AUG 10: Sonia Gandhi may contest from two constituencies, one in the North and the other in the South. Besides Amethi, which w...
Wed, Aug 11, 1999
July 19, 1999 00:00 IST
The most spurious of all arguments being advanced by political parties is that Kargil should not be a poll issue.The BJP thinks the issue...
Mon, Jul 19, 1999
July 17, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, July 17: President K R Narayanan has written to Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, urging him to put on hold certain modific...
Sat, Jul 17, 1999


