The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

March 09, 2006 01:38 IST
The Congress has betrayed a nervousness in the aftermath of the Varanasi bomb blasts, which have the potential to change political equations...
Thu, Mar 09, 2006
March 07, 2006 00:00 IST
Of the five states going into election mode, it is Tamil Nadu that will most affect national politics. When some Tamil commentators had pred...
Tue, Mar 07, 2006
March 02, 2006 00:00 IST
With the Allahabad High Court verdict going against Mulayam Singh Yadav in the case of the 40 erstwhile BSP MLAs, Uttar Pradesh is getting r...
Thu, Mar 02, 2006
February 28, 2006 02:14 IST
The stage is set for a Kurukshetra in UP with the judgement in the “40 BSP MLAs” case expected tomorrow which could bring down Mul...
Tue, Feb 28, 2006
February 27, 2006 01:11 IST
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has pulled Pranab Mukherjee out of the talks with Mamata Banerjee for seat adjustments in West Bengal and pr...
Mon, Feb 27, 2006
February 22, 2006 00:00 IST
When you invite a speaker or a panelist to a meeting, you confirm his or her participation before the cards are sent out. If you don’t,...
Wed, Feb 22, 2006
February 07, 2006 00:13 IST
Judge me by my actions. That was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s response in his press conference last week to the argument that he wa...
Tue, Feb 07, 2006
January 24, 2006 00:00 IST
Congress party plenary sessions have normally struck the high note. The message emanating from one is meant to stay with Congress workers un...
Tue, Jan 24, 2006
January 20, 2006 00:00 IST
When his government was tottering in 1997, after Sitaram Kesri had pulled the plug, H.D. Deve Gowda, then prime minister heading a United Fr...
Fri, Jan 20, 2006
January 18, 2006 00:00 IST
Through an astonishing display of political maladroitness, the Congress government has managed to breathe new life into a dead scam. Ninetee...
Wed, Jan 18, 2006
January 03, 2006 00:04 IST
Rajnath Singh has taken over as the president of the BJP, not because he was the most acceptable of the candidates within the party, but bec...
Tue, Jan 03, 2006
December 20, 2005 00:00 IST
To begin with, the cash-for-questions sting operation drew a quick response from the political class. Various parties, the Lok Sabha Speaker...
Tue, Dec 20, 2005
December 06, 2005 00:47 IST
In her reply to the showcause notice served to her, Uma Bharati stated that the “BJP experiment” had failed. She must have known w...
Tue, Dec 06, 2005
November 23, 2005 01:17 IST
Tuesday’s extraordinary electoral outcome, which ended Laloo raj in Bihar and set the stage for the onset of post-Mandal politics in th...
Wed, Nov 23, 2005
November 22, 2005 00:00 IST
Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew recently exhorted Infosys chief N.R. Narayana Murthy to enter politics and refashion it just as he had shaped ...
Tue, Nov 22, 2005
November 19, 2005 01:45 IST
After six postponements, the much-hyped, long-awaited Cabinet reshuffle announced today was both tentative and hesitant. Coming on the eve o...
Sat, Nov 19, 2005
November 18, 2005 00:00 IST
Seven years ago Najma Heptullah had organised a tea party at her Akbar Road residence for Sonia Gandhi to interact with the media, her first...
Fri, Nov 18, 2005
November 10, 2005 02:46 IST
Kocheril Raman Narayanan, who as India’s first Dalit President saw himself as a “custodian of the Constitution” while bringin...
Thu, Nov 10, 2005
November 09, 2005 00:00 IST
The prime minister’s ‘half measure’ of stripping Natwar Singh of the External Affairs portfolio, but letting him continue as ...
Wed, Nov 09, 2005
November 01, 2005 02:11 IST
With the decision on Ghulam Nabi Azad as J&K CM behind him, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has turned his attention again to the long awaited...
Tue, Nov 01, 2005
October 25, 2005 00:55 IST
Amid indications that Congress president Sonia Gandhi might ask J&K Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed to continue as CM for ‘‘s...
Tue, Oct 25, 2005
October 25, 2005 00:00 IST
Irrespective of the final decision on who will be the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir after November 2 — Mufti Mohammed Sayed or Gh...
Tue, Oct 25, 2005
October 24, 2005 02:21 IST
Less than ten days before the expected change of guard in Srinagar, Congress president Sonia Gandhi called Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister ...
Mon, Oct 24, 2005
October 11, 2005 00:00 IST
Bihar Governor Buta Singh should go. The sooner the better, for all concerned — for the prime minister, UPA, Congress, institution of g...
Tue, Oct 11, 2005
September 29, 2005 02:21 IST
Put off four times already, talk of an Union Cabinet reshuffle doing the rounds again with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resuming the proces...
Thu, Sep 29, 2005





