The writer was an aide to former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
May 10, 2009 00:41 IST
This election saw me perform a new task for my partys campaign.
Sun, May 10, 2009May 03, 2009 00:06 IST
One of the memorable experiences from my years as a journalist is associated with the centenary celebrations of the Congress party in Mumbai in 1985.....
Sun, May 03, 2009April 26, 2009 23:32 IST
The kid-glove treatment that much of the media reserves for the Nehru dynasty and its nominated Prime Minister is one of the many troubling lessons in what is wrong with our democracy.
Sun, Apr 26, 2009April 19, 2009 00:36 IST
For a conscientious politician,honour is a greater adornment than power. He values honour more than the office he holds.....
Sun, Apr 19, 2009April 12, 2009 01:59 IST
Of late,our soft-spoken Prime Minister has begun using harsh languagenot about the enemies of the nation but about the leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Sun, Apr 12, 2009April 05, 2009 00:55 IST
Not being an expert in etymology,I do not know how the word populism originated. However,keen observers of and participants....
Sun, Apr 05, 2009March 29, 2009 00:03 IST
When it comes to manifestos of political parties,a section of the intelligentsia and the media exhibits a dismissive tendency that riles political activists like me......
Sun, Mar 29, 2009March 15, 2009 00:43 IST
It is amazing how much the forthcoming parliamentary elections revolve around the issue of caste......
Sun, Mar 15, 2009March 08, 2009 04:28 IST
The poet who wrote these defiant and inspirational lines is now back at his home,after many days of hospitalisation....
Sun, Mar 08, 2009March 01, 2009 00:56 IST
In a recent interaction with my partys young campaigners in the coming parliamentary elections...
Sun, Mar 01, 2009February 22, 2009 01:18 IST
H.L. Dusadh is not the typical high-society Delhi intellectual one sees at the India International Centre and other usual places in the seminar circuit.
Sun, Feb 22, 2009February 15, 2009 00:50 IST
The other day I was talking to a fellow political activist about how to increase voter turnout on the polling day.
Sun, Feb 15, 2009February 08, 2009 00:36 IST
Why Democracy Is Struggling in Asia was the cover story of a recent issue of TIME magazine.
Sun, Feb 08, 2009February 01, 2009 00:51 IST
Elections to the 15th Lok Sabha are only ten weeks away. Can anything be said about their outcome without the fear of being contradicted....
Sun, Feb 01, 2009January 25, 2009 00:45 IST
The Delhi airport,now undergoing a major renovation,tells me a lot about our Republic and our democracy.
Sun, Jan 25, 2009January 18, 2009 00:46 IST
Rahul Gandhis Discovery of India is following such bizarrely unconventional ways that it is impossible not to subject it to public scrutiny.
Sun, Jan 18, 2009January 11, 2009 01:40 IST
The fog in Delhi is clearing up. The sun is regaining his brightness,adding warmth to the chill that hasnt departed yet. In a few weeks from now...
Sun, Jan 11, 2009March 05, 2006 00:00 IST
Even bitter critics of Indira Gandhi concede that her greatest triumph — indeed, independent India’s greatest strategic triumph &#...
Sun, Mar 05, 2006February 26, 2006 00:02 IST
India's relationship with South Africa is special. Gandhiji’s transformation from Mohandas to Mahatma occurred essentially in South Afr...
Sun, Feb 26, 2006February 19, 2006 01:06 IST
My good friend M J Akbar raises a question in his introduction to late Dr Rafiq Zakaria’s seminal book Indian Muslims: Where Have They ...
Sun, Feb 19, 2006February 12, 2006 00:00 IST
All IFS of history are flights of imagination. Yet, despite their implausibility, their use is permissible when a reasonable argument is sou...
Sun, Feb 12, 2006February 05, 2006 00:00 IST
Does good literature teach us anything about what constitutes good economics? Prevailing punditry on economic reforms says no. What have nov...
Sun, Feb 05, 2006January 29, 2006 00:00 IST
Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. The saying yields two thoughts. One is about the redemptive power of time, which can help ...
Sun, Jan 29, 2006January 22, 2006 00:00 IST
‘‘If Abu Salem had a political godfather, CBI would have argued he should stay in Lisbon.’’ The Indian Express wrote thi...
Sun, Jan 22, 2006January 20, 2006 00:00 IST
Like individuals, do some nations too have a split personality? Anyone who has closely observed Iran’s enigmatic exterior is likely to ...
Fri, Jan 20, 2006