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Journalism of Courage

Arun Shourie

[caption id="attachment_2047118" align="alignnone" width="200"] Arun Shourie[/caption] The writer, a former Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP, was Union minister for communications, information technology and disinvestment.

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The elastic foot-rulerSubscriber Only

May 22,2005 00:30:39 AM

One of the many concoctions that were put out was that officials and I had called a meeting of bankers to get them to lend money to Tulip to...

Sun, May 22, 2005

While the government deliberatesSubscriber Only

May 21,2005 00:05:12 AM

‘‘But the original valuation of the hotel was Rs. 246 crore, the Government says. How was this brought down to a reserve price of ...

Sat, May 21, 2005

Eyes wide shut in the WestSubscriber Only

May 14,2005 00:00:00 AM

“But will the Americans allow this?’’ the hopeful ask. There has indeed been, as we noticed, a change in America’s asses...

Sat, May 14, 2005

A failed State, a Talibanised societySubscriber Only

May 13,2005 00:00:00 AM

The first truth to bear in mind is the nature of the State of Pakistan. In Pakistan, power resides in the hands of persons and institutions ...

Fri, May 13, 2005

Mullah-Military: The unholy allianceSubscriber Only

May 12,2005 00:00:00 AM

We are told that, after the two attempts to assassinate him nearly succeeded, after the attack on the Corps Commander in Karachi, and later ...

Thu, May 12, 2005

Has Musharraf’s heart changed? And why?Subscriber Only

May 11,2005 00:00:00 AM

The collapse of the Soviet Union threw our foreign and defence policies into a spin. With great, and invisible, skill Narasimha Rao landed t...

Wed, May 11, 2005

Caste in injusticeSubscriber Only

January 23,2005 00:25:14 AM

THE JUSTIFICATION FOR ASSAULT Today, governments spend about Rs 45,000 crore on subsidies. If you suggest even that governments should ascer...

Sun, Jan 23, 2005

The need for Common Minimum ConductSubscriber Only

January 22,2005 00:00:00 AM

STRUCTUREEven in the decades that immediately followed the adoption of the Constitution, there was keen argument whether the structure that ...

Sat, Jan 22, 2005

Three cheers for libertySubscriber Only

January 21,2005 00:00:00 AM

The new challengeThe victory against Emergency was one of the most exhilarating moments since Independence. A determined assault against fre...

Fri, Jan 21, 2005

Protector of the democratic citizenSubscriber Only

January 20,2005 00:00:00 AM

Nani Palkhivala’s life was marked by total commitment to our country, to the public weal. In the first lecture in this series, Mr Fali ...

Thu, Jan 20, 2005

The forces of insecuritySubscriber Only

December 18,2004 00:00:00 AM

From terrible to horrible The Indo-Tibetan Border Force has been organised, trained, equipped as a specialised force for mountain warfare. W...

Sat, Dec 18, 2004

The ticking bomb inside mosque and madrasaSubscriber Only

December 17,2004 00:00:00 AM

‘Communal’, ‘communal’Surveying the theatres that are being used to trans-ship arms, to orchestrate propaganda against I...

Fri, Dec 17, 2004

The rich, invisible and sinister enemy withinSubscriber Only

December 16,2004 00:00:00 AM

Laws upon laws, boards upon boards ISI operates through agents it smuggles across, through modules it has set up. And it has been devilishly...

Thu, Dec 16, 2004

Listening to Sufi music as thousands are murderedSubscriber Only

December 15,2004 00:00:00 AM

Are we at all serious about defending the country? Since 1989, more than 13,500 civilians and 5,250 security personnel have been killed by t...

Wed, Dec 15, 2004

Another conference, another warningSubscriber Only

October 12,2004 00:00:00 AM

Months continued to roll by. The BJP had taken up the issue. The Cabinet had decided that the IMDT Act shall be repealed. But nothing happen...

Tue, Oct 12, 2004

How we deal with life and death mattersSubscriber Only

October 11,2004 00:00:00 AM

Here is the shortest possible chronology of the ruinous Illegal Migrants (Determination by Tribunals) Act:• November 23, 1946: The Fore...

Mon, Oct 11, 2004

Further warnings, further calumnySubscriber Only

October 10,2004 00:00:00 AM

T V Rajeswar’s reports were ignored—he did not even get so much as a perfunctory acknowledgement that they had been received and t...

Sun, Oct 10, 2004

Right on courseSubscriber Only

October 09,2004 00:00:00 AM

Readers will recall that after the reports that he had sent to the President and to successive prime ministers as governor of West Bengal ha...

Sat, Oct 09, 2004

The many states of despair and callousnessSubscriber Only

October 01,2004 00:00:00 AM

Part of a patternThe situation in West Bengal is especially educative. Here is a State that has been ruled for over two decades by ones who ...

Fri, Oct 01, 2004

The mystery of how a report slips under a tableSubscriber Only

September 30,2004 00:00:00 AM

Accountable to Legislatures?Of course, the preparation of the CAG’s report is not the end of the matter. In theory, the CAG is but the ...

Thu, Sep 30, 2004

The Communist art of redistributing povertySubscriber Only

August 20,2004 00:00:00 AM

Our own BourbonsThe CAG’s final words sum up the results of the West Bengal Government’s commitment to save jobs by reviving units...

Fri, Aug 20, 2004

The Left is known by the Company it keepsSubscriber Only

August 19,2004 00:00:00 AM

Fifteen years to nowhereKrishna Silicate and Glass went bankrupt and closed operations in the sixties. It went into liquidation in 1970. The...

Thu, Aug 19, 2004

Let a hundred PSU Boards bloomSubscriber Only

August 18,2004 00:00:00 AM

‘‘There is, of cou-rse, another side to the public sector,’’ P Chidambaram said in his Budget Speech. ‘‘This s...

Wed, Aug 18, 2004

What we need and what we getSubscriber Only

July 30,2004 00:00:00 AM

We must have swift ‘‘resolution of failure’’, declares the Economic Survey that Chidambaram tabled—less ‘&#145...

Fri, Jul 30, 2004

The question favoured by Marxists but one they won’t ask this timeSubscriber Only

July 29,2004 00:00:00 AM

Several of the proposals in the Budget are just empty words, words that we have heard again and again for years. Centrally-sponsored schemes...

Thu, Jul 29, 2004

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