The writer is Contributing Editor, The Indian Express

July 20,1997 00:00:00 AM
In his farewell speech in Parliament, Haradanahalli Dodde Gowda Deve Gowda had said he would rise from the ashes. The former prime minister...
Sun, Jul 20, 1997
July 20,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, July 19: Three months after he demitted the office of Prime Minister, H D Deve Gowda is proving to be the focal point of the ant...
Sun, Jul 20, 1997
July 19,1997 00:00:00 AM
NEW DELHI, July 18: When H D Deve Gowda was the Prime Minister and contentious issues cropped up between the Left and him, the rajguru of h...
Sat, Jul 19, 1997
July 14,1997 00:00:00 AM
The political opinion is now veering around to the view that elections are on the cards before the calendar year is out. The two major part...
Mon, Jul 14, 1997
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...
Thu, Jul 10, 1997
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...
Mon, Jul 07, 1997
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...
Sun, Jun 22, 1997
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...
Fri, Jun 13, 1997
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...
Sun, Jun 08, 1997
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...
Wed, Jun 04, 1997
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...
Tue, Jun 03, 1997
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 ...
Mon, Jun 02, 1997
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...
Sun, Jun 01, 1997
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...
Thu, May 29, 1997
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...
Sat, May 24, 1997
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...
Mon, May 19, 1997
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...
Fri, May 09, 1997
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...
Thu, May 08, 1997
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...
Mon, May 05, 1997
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...
Sat, May 03, 1997
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...
Fri, May 02, 1997
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...
Thu, May 01, 1997





