The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

October 28,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 27: The DMK-led government in Pondicherry has begun to totter thanks to the new-found friendship between Jayalalitha and G...
Thu, Oct 28, 1999
October 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 18: Amongst the first political initiatives by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is an attempt to win over the Jats who ...
Tue, Oct 19, 1999
October 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 18: Amongst the first political initiatives by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee is an attempt to win over the Jats who ...
Tue, Oct 19, 1999
October 18,1999 00:00:00 AM
With the elections over, the question on the people's mind now is: How stable is the Vajpayee government?On the plus side is the arithmet...
Mon, Oct 18, 1999
October 17,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 16; Deposed as Congress president a-year-and-a-half ago, Sitaram Kesri has fired his first salvo against what he calls the...
Sun, Oct 17, 1999
October 14,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 13: Sonia Gandhi's election as the chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) on Tuesday may have gone off with...
Thu, Oct 14, 1999
October 13,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 12: Sonia Gandhi's election as the chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) on Tuesday may have gone off with...
Wed, Oct 13, 1999
October 09,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 8: The Prime Minister is understood to be giving the utmost attention to who should man the economic ministries in his new...
Sat, Oct 09, 1999
October 08,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 7: There is a patch-up effort on to bring together the Congress and the NCP with a view to forming a secular government in...
Fri, Oct 08, 1999
October 08,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, OCT 7: There is a patch-up effort on to bring together the Congress and the NCP with a view to forming a secular government in...
Fri, Oct 08, 1999
October 04,1999 00:00:00 AM
Elections '99 underscore the paradigm shift that has visibly taken place in political representation.Communities have become more conscio...
Mon, Oct 04, 1999
September 20,1999 00:00:00 AM
The paradoxes of Indian politics never cease to amaze. Sonia Gandhi will become prime minister if the Congress gets a majority, or if the...
Mon, Sep 20, 1999
September 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
When reporters asked Sonia whether like Sushma Swaraj, she would be speaking in Kannada in Bellary, it was Priyanka who immediately shot ...
Sun, Sep 19, 1999
September 06,1999 00:00:00 AM
The 1999 elections are characterised by a growing fragmentation of the polity. At the same time, there is greater bipolarity than ever be...
Mon, Sep 06, 1999
August 28,1999 00:00:00 AM
BELLARY, AUG 27: In what constitutes a significant shift in the position of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi indicated today that the party wou...
Sat, Aug 28, 1999
August 28,1999 00:00:00 AM
BELLARY, AUG 27: In what constitutes a significant shift in the position of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi indicated today that the party wou...
Sat, Aug 28, 1999
August 22,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, Aug 21: Dissatisfied with the neglect of women by the Congress's selection committees, party president Sonia Gandhi is believe...
Sun, Aug 22, 1999
August 20,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, AUG 19: While the decision to field Sushma Swaraj from Bellary was the idea of Rama Krishna Hegde and N Venkiah Naidu, the `op...
Fri, Aug 20, 1999
August 20,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, AUG 19: While the decision to field Sushma Swaraj from Bellary was the idea of Rama Krishna Hegde and N Venkiah Naidu, the `op...
Fri, Aug 20, 1999
August 16,1999 00:00:00 AM
When the Vajpayee government sought a vote of confidence in April this year, L.K. Advani had opened his speech by citing the example of G...
Mon, Aug 16, 1999
August 13,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 12: Manmohan Singh has finally graduated from being a bureaucrat-technocrat to a master of realpolitik, as he is all se...
Fri, Aug 13, 1999
August 13,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, AUGUST 12: Manmohan Singh has finally graduated from being a bureaucrat-technocrat to a master of realpolitik, as he is all se...
Fri, Aug 13, 1999
August 11,1999 00:00:00 AM
New Delhi, Aug 10: Amethi may not be the only place from where Sonia Gandhi will contest. The Congress has zeroed in on Bellary in Karnat...
Wed, Aug 11, 1999
August 11,1999 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, AUG 10: Sonia Gandhi may contest from two constituencies, one in the North and the other in the South. Besides Amethi, which w...
Wed, Aug 11, 1999
July 19,1999 00:00:00 AM
The most spurious of all arguments being advanced by political parties is that Kargil should not be a poll issue.The BJP thinks the issue...
Mon, Jul 19, 1999




