The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express
July 10,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, July 9: With the Janata Dal split leaving Prime Minister I K Gujral even more of a passive approver, it is Congress chief Sitara...
July 07,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, July 6: It is a ``win-win'' situation for Sitaram Kesri after the split in the Janata Dal. But the Congress president seems to b...
June 22,1997 00:00:00 AM
ROURKELA, June 21: Thousands waited for more than two hours at Badgaon, a cashew-growing village between Sundergarh and Rourkela. The old t...
June 13,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, June 12: Gone are the days when candidates for the country's presidency refrained from campaigning for themselves. For the presi...
June 08,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, June 7: The Yadav war in the Janata Dal has drawn the battlelines in the ruling party and also sharpened the conflict between Pr...
June 04,1997 00:00:00 AM
Ghulam Nabi: Plays Pawar tune NEW DELHI, June 3: The political weathercock of the Congress party, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who has managed to st...
June 03,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, June 2: Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral is planning to expand his cabinet with all women. The expansion is slated to take plac...
June 02,1997 00:00:00 AM
To criticise Gandhi in India is no longer unusual, and that is how it should be. Kanshi Ram and Mayawati can launch a diatribe against the ...
June 01,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, May 31: The two Sharads, Pawar and Yadav, have more than one thing in common. They have the same name and they are both taking o...
May 29,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, May 28: With dozens of nomination sets filed in his favour, Congress president Sitaram Kesri is trying to signal that he is in c...
May 24,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, MAY 23: In the dog-eat-dog milieu that prevails today, Sumitra Gandhi Kulkarni, grand-daughter of Mahatma Gandhi, is pinning her...
May 19,1997 00:00:00 AM
THE hands-off approach being adopted by Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral to problems that stare him in the face may have a political logic...
May 09,1997 00:00:00 AM
Sonia Gandhi: Tryst with politics? Mama mia! A fine manicured hand! NEW DELHI, May 8: Sonia Gandhi formally entered the political arena...
May 08,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, May 7: In an unusual development, President Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma has called a meeting of governors and leaders of political p...
May 05,1997 00:00:00 AM
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief, Joginder Singh, has become synonymous with the politicisation of the country's premier inv...
May 03,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, May 2: The revised schedule for Congress party elections announced today is a veiled warning by party president Sitaram Kesri to...
May 02,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, May 1: It is the `raj jyotishis' who call the political shots today. What the Prime Minister may want or the President may fix h...
May 01,1997 00:00:00 AM
Harkishen Singh Surjeet and Somnath Chatterjee talking to mediapersons outside the 7 Race Course Raod after a pre-budget meeting with the P...
