The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

April 29, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, APRIL 28: With secular forces in disarray, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is driving home its advantage and trying to embarr...
Thu, Apr 29, 1999
April 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, APRIL 19: If Jayalalitha with her 18 MPs brought down the BJP-led government, Mulayam Singh Yadav with his flock of 20 is toda...
Tue, Apr 20, 1999
April 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, APRIL 19: Tamil Nadu politics has devoured yet another government. Last time it was Inder Gujral whose refusal to dump the DMK...
Tue, Apr 20, 1999
April 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, APRIL 19: If Jayalalitha with her 18 MPs brought down the BJP-led government, Mulayam Singh Yadav with his flock of 20 is toda...
Tue, Apr 20, 1999
April 19, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 18: The tenure of Atal Behari Vajpayee as Prime Minister of India will not be easily forgotten, even though it did not l...
Mon, Apr 19, 1999
April 18, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 17: As the Congress considers its options in the aftermath of the collapse of the BJP-led government, it is unlikely to ...
Sun, Apr 18, 1999
April 16, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, APRIL 15: At the end of the first day of debate on the confidence motion moved by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, it rema...
Fri, Apr 16, 1999
April 13, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, April 12: Even as the Government's fate hangs in the balance, the controversy over the purchase of T-90S tanks from Russia is ...
Tue, Apr 13, 1999
April 11, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 10: The Congress has made it clear to Opposition party managers that in case the BJP-led Government falls, Sonia Gandhi ...
Sun, Apr 11, 1999
April 08, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 7: As in the past two years, the pivotal role of getting together a non-BJP government is being played by the Left in ge...
Thu, Apr 08, 1999
April 08, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, April 7: As in the past two years, the pivotal role of getting together a non-BJP government is being played by the Left in ge...
Thu, Apr 08, 1999
April 05, 1999 00:00 IST
As Sonia Gandhi entered Ashoka Hotel to attend Subramanian Swamy's party last week, I couldn't help thinking to myself that had Indira Ga...
Mon, Apr 05, 1999
March 29, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 28: Sharad Pawar is in search of a new image. He is known widely as a wily Maratha leader who ducks to survive. But Pawa...
Mon, Mar 29, 1999
March 27, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 26: Sharad Pawar has ruled out returning to Maharashtra, ending speculation that he may be sent back to the State, in a ...
Sat, Mar 27, 1999
March 18, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 17: The Bhagwat episode in Parliament has brought to the fore a generation gap in the Congress with Sonia Gandhi fieldin...
Thu, Mar 18, 1999
March 13, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 12: Despite his repeated public assertions that he would stay on as Bihar Governor, Sunder Singh Bhandari reportedly off...
Sat, Mar 13, 1999
March 11, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, March 10: Even as the Lok Sabha Speaker meets Opposition leaders tomorrow to decide whether to allow a censure motion on the B...
Thu, Mar 11, 1999
March 08, 1999 00:00 IST
Bihar, no doubt a catch-22 for the Congress, shows that Sonia Gandhi is not clear about what she really wants. Up until now she had given...
Mon, Mar 08, 1999
March 06, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 5: With legal and financial imperatives which the Government had earlier overlooked now coming to the fore, the BJP is r...
Sat, Mar 06, 1999
March 04, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, MARCH 3: The official version was that only seven minutes out of the two-and-a-half-hour Cabinet meeting this evening were kep...
Thu, Mar 04, 1999
February 26, 1999 00:00 IST
New Delhi, February 25: All eyes are on Chandrababu Naidu with the Bihar vote slated for tomorrow and the TDP leader is in a position not...
Fri, Feb 26, 1999
February 13, 1999 00:00 IST
MONTEGO BAY, FEB 12: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, who was closely monitoring the Bihar situation during the last 24 hours, gave t...
Sat, Feb 13, 1999
February 12, 1999 00:00 IST
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, FEB 11: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is putting the hands on experience he has acquired of synthesising the ...
Fri, Feb 12, 1999
February 12, 1999 00:00 IST
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, FEB 11: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is putting the hands on experience he has acquired of synthesising the ...
Fri, Feb 12, 1999
February 11, 1999 00:00 IST
ON BOARD THE PM'S PLANE TO MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, FEB 10: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today confirmed that he would be travelling ...
Thu, Feb 11, 1999


