The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express
September 23, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Sept 22: The Union Cabinet's recommendation to the President to dismiss the Rabri government and impose Central rule in Bihar ...
Wed, Sep 23, 1998September 18, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, SEPT 17: Were the Centre to send his wife's government packing, Laloo Yadav's googly -- ``Vananchal over my dead body''-- has ...
Fri, Sep 18, 1998September 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Sept 7: Pachmarhi is a message to the Left that the Congress wants to do business with it and a warning to the Bharatiya Janat...
Tue, Sep 08, 1998September 08, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Sept 7: Pachmarhi is a message to the Left that the Congress wants to do business with it and a warning to the Bharatiya Janat...
Tue, Sep 08, 1998September 04, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, SEPT 3: Congress President Sonia Gandhi has replaced Manmohan Singh with Pranab Mukherjee to engage the Left in a dialogue to ...
Fri, Sep 04, 1998August 20, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, August 19: Before she took over as Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi had gone to Chennai and invited Jayalalitha to come and have t...
Thu, Aug 20, 1998August 17, 1998 00:00 IST
I for one prefer the new mode used by the President to address the nation on August 14 -- a conversation with a journalist.A monologue ca...
Mon, Aug 17, 1998August 12, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, Aug 11: The President's decision to engage in a TV `conversation' with Frontline editor N Ram in lieu of his customary address...
Wed, Aug 12, 1998August 10, 1998 00:00 IST
Congress President Sonia Gandhi is increasingly turning aggressive in her attack against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Her speech in...
Mon, Aug 10, 1998August 07, 1998 00:00 IST
If there is a Congress leader among the new breed who has used the four weapons of saam, daam, dand and bhed (persuasion, money, fear and...
Fri, Aug 07, 1998August 05, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, August 4: When it came to the crunch, nobody wanted a showdown. The election of the deputy speaker of the Lok Sabha was gettin...
Wed, Aug 05, 1998August 03, 1998 00:00 IST
Sonia Gandhi's July 28 walkathon is a benchmark in her political career. The determination she displayed to go ahead with it was reminisc...
Mon, Aug 03, 1998July 31, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, JULY 30: The creation of Uttaranchal, Vananchal and Chhatisgarh and the grant of statehood to Delhi have become a political fo...
Fri, Jul 31, 1998July 23, 1998 00:00 IST
Political careers of Sharad Pawar and his mentor Yashwantrao Chavan have lots in common. Both Maharashtra strongmen played a decisive rol...
Thu, Jul 23, 1998July 20, 1998 00:00 IST
Political hypocrisy touched a new low on the women's reservation Bill. For all their lip sympathy to the cause,and promises made in most ...
Mon, Jul 20, 1998July 16, 1998 00:00 IST
They all tried to fool each other and the women. The just-aborted Women's Reservation Bill had no chance ever, with its ``supporters'' pa...
Thu, Jul 16, 1998June 17, 1998 00:00 IST
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan spoke to him for 20 minutes on the telephone after the explosions in Pokharan. Last week, Pakist...
Wed, Jun 17, 1998June 08, 1998 00:00 IST
Ram Manohar Lohia had once scolded Jawaharlal Nehru for breaking down publicly after Lata Mangeshkar rendered her memorable "Ai mere wa...
Mon, Jun 08, 1998June 03, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, June 2: The decks are being cleared to bring Jaswant Singh and Pramod Mahajan into the Rajya Sabha with a view to inducting them ...
Wed, Jun 03, 1998May 30, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 29: The May 11 and 13 nuclear tests and the retaliatory Pakistani explosions seem to be catalysing new political equations in...
Sat, May 30, 1998May 29, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 28: Minutes after the Government announced the explosion of nuclear devices by Pakistan in the Lok Sabha, Home Minister L K A...
Fri, May 29, 1998May 25, 1998 00:00 IST
The government has handled reasonably well the aftermath of the nuclear tests. But the China-centric justification for the detonations has b...
Mon, May 25, 1998May 23, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 22: Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is learnt to have advised his political advisor Pramod Mahajan not to create unnecess...
Sat, May 23, 1998May 14, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 13: As the Buddha continued to smile on Wednesday, the explosion of two more nuclear devices following Monday's triple bomb, ...
Thu, May 14, 1998May 13, 1998 00:00 IST
NEW DELHI, May 12: After being buffeted around for 50 days, the BJP Government, which exploded three underground devices at Pokhran on Monda...
Wed, May 13, 1998