Vandita is The Indian Express National Opinion Editor
May 26, 2002 00:00 IST
At some point in the past week or so, the western media decided that the stand-off in South Asia is more compelling than the conflict in the...
May 12, 2002 00:00 IST
After long months of house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi walked through her sky blue metal gate this week to cautious celebration. Is her cage r...
May 05, 2002 00:00 IST
The choice in Pakistan, as one British paper put it, was between General Pervez Musharraf, Gen P Musharraf, or Musharraf, Pervez (General). ...
April 28, 2002 00:00 IST
The French presidential elections this year are fated to be world-famous for the one who didn’t win. Though everybody rules out the pos...
April 23, 2002 00:00 IST
What if Narendra Modi wins the election after the carnage? The Gujarat cabinet’s decision to defer the threatened dissolution of the As...
April 21, 2002 00:00 IST
Readers might recall a journalist asking George W. Bush a question he could not answer during his presidential campaign. Andy Hiller asked B...
April 14, 2002 00:00 IST
It won’t be because of another turn in Washington’s war on terror. It won’t be because of a sudden lurch towards nuclear war....
April 08, 2002 00:00 IST
In the political melee, the moment was overtaken before it fully registered. On the night the NDA was piloting a crucial legislation in Parl...
April 07, 2002 00:00 IST
In an interview to TIME magazine this week, billed as the ‘Interview With A Hindu Leader’, VHP General Secretary Praveen Togadia s...
January 03, 2001 00:00 IST
It would be stating the obvious to say that debate takes party-political lines in Parliament. What is much more remarkable, and disturbing...
November 08, 2000 00:00 IST
Ever since the Congress's unspectacular performance in the 1991 Lok Sabha elections, the charismatic Rajesh Pilot had insistently spoken o...
October 06, 2000 00:00 IST
Ever since P.V. Narasimha Rao's conviction in the JMM case, it has been suggested that the former prime minister is more a victim than a v...
September 15, 2000 00:00 IST
If there was one thing that both the teams and the referee agreed upon in the recent fracas over the 11th Finance Commission's recommendat...
August 10, 2000 00:00 IST
It is not just that one man has mocked the might of two state governments for nearly two decades. Or that he has been aided and abetted in...
July 26, 2000 00:00 IST
Bal Thackeray's formal arrest and prompt discharge by a Mumbai city court leave behind an enormous sense of anti-climax and some questions...
