The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

February 11, 1999 00:00 IST
MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, FEB 10: India and Pakistan are set now to talk about the nuclearisation of the subcontinent at the bilateral level,...
Thu, Feb 11, 1999
February 10, 1999 00:00 IST
PORT OF SPAIN (TRINIDAD), FEB 9: The sun-kissed island of Trinidad has given Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee a welcome break from the...
Wed, Feb 10, 1999
February 10, 1999 00:00 IST
PORT OF SPAIN (TRINIDAD), FEB 9: The sun-kissed island of Trinidad has given Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee a welcome break from the...
Wed, Feb 10, 1999
February 06, 1999 00:00 IST
Sonia Gandhi's long-awaited reorganisation of the AICC secretariat is more notable for the leaders it has excluded and retained than for ...
Sat, Feb 06, 1999
February 02, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Feb 1: US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott's meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday was more than a co...
Tue, Feb 02, 1999
January 25, 1999 00:00 IST
It is an irony of our times that L. K. Advani and Sonia Gandhi are talking in the same vein today. Advani had said not long ago that Indi...
Mon, Jan 25, 1999
January 21, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 20: Rashtrapati Bhavan is unhappy with the twist that has been given to President K R Narayanan's recommendation for more ...
Thu, Jan 21, 1999
January 20, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 19: The iftaar's hosted by Sonia Gandhi and Mulayam Singh Yadav over the weekend were more than the usual bashes marking t...
Wed, Jan 20, 1999
January 16, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 15: The transfer of Governor Anshuman Singh from Gujarat to Rajasthan defies convention because Singh served in Rajasthan ...
Sat, Jan 16, 1999
January 11, 1999 00:00 IST
There is little doubt that Sonia Gandhi happens to head the Congress at the `right' time, when the party is on the way to revival. The BJ...
Mon, Jan 11, 1999
January 09, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 8: The Government seems set to go back on its crucial decision which led to the sacking of Admiral Vishnu Bhagwatthe appoi...
Sat, Jan 09, 1999
January 07, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JAN 6: The President, who's the supreme commander of the defence forces, is learnt to have been merely informed about the Gove...
Thu, Jan 07, 1999
January 04, 1999 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Jan 3: Congress president Sonia Gandhi is already facing woman trouble as she seeks to give effect to the far-reaching decisio...
Mon, Jan 04, 1999
December 28, 1998 00:00 IST
It is not widely known that Jayaprakash Narayan, the new Bharat Ratna, had in 1977 rejected it. The then Prime Minister Morarji Desai had...
Mon, Dec 28, 1998
December 19, 1998 00:00 IST
New Delhi, Dec 18: The Congress appears to have decided to make a distinction between the Prime Minister and the BJP and bail out Atal Be...
Sat, Dec 19, 1998
December 14, 1998 00:00 IST
There have been three straws in the wind in the last week which are likely to have a bearing on the longevity of the government. The firs...
Mon, Dec 14, 1998
December 07, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Dec 6: As the battle between the RSS and Atal Behari Vajpayee is intensifying -- which what many believe is an attempt to corn...
Mon, Dec 07, 1998
December 01, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 30: After her victory, Sonia Gandhi's dilemma now is how -- and when -- to take her resurgent party into elections without...
Tue, Dec 01, 1998
November 30, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, NOV 29: The results of the by-elections in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh show that the winds blowing in favour of the Congress in the ...
Mon, Nov 30, 1998
November 30, 1998 00:00 IST
When Sonia Gandhi went to Raipur last week to address an election rally, she struck a chord with the women. Sonia spoke for no more than eig...
Mon, Nov 30, 1998
November 26, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Nov 25: The Congress is on the comeback trail -- if the exit polls are to be believed. Even though the Prime Minister said today ...
Thu, Nov 26, 1998
November 16, 1998 00:00 IST
Toote hue sapnon ki sune kaun siski,/Antar ko cheer vyatha palakon par thithki,/Haar nahin manoonga,/Raar nayi thanoonga,/Kaal ke kapaal par...
Mon, Nov 16, 1998
November 08, 1998 00:00 IST
ON BOARD PM'S AIRCRAFT, Nov 7: The old Atal Behari Vajpayee has resurfaced. Gone is the wounded look which had appeared in the five months a...
Sun, Nov 08, 1998
November 02, 1998 00:00 IST
There is nothing wrong about starting a function with a Saraswati Vandana, an invocation to the goddess of knowledge, or teaching Sanskrit i...
Mon, Nov 02, 1998
October 30, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Oct 29: For some months now, R D Pradhan's name plate has been hanging innocuously outside the office of the Congress presiden...
Fri, Oct 30, 1998



