The writer is Distinguished Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, New Delhi.
July 07,2003 00:00:00 AM
The lives, the aspirations, the dreams, the fears, the joys and the toils of 1.3 billion citizens of the People’s Republic of China are...
June 11,2003 00:00:00 AM
After five years of below average growth the Indian economy is set this year to finally move beyond the long-term average rate of the last t...
May 26,2003 00:00:00 AM
In a different era a gathering of this sort and an agenda of this kind would have sent alarm bells ringing in New Delhi. A Southern Economic...
May 05,2003 00:00:00 AM
The famous binary divide in our nation used to be between India and Bharat, but today it is between taxpayers and tax evaders. So summed up ...
March 31,2003 00:00:00 AM
Sometime in the mid-nineties, film maker Kumar Shahani came to see me to urge me to write an editorial against an attempt by the United Stat...
March 03,2003 00:00:00 AM
Just imagine what would have happened to Union finance minister Jaswant Singh’s maiden budget speech if it had clashed with the India-P...
February 14,2003 00:00:00 AM
Who cares about economic growth when the World Cup is on. Or, is there any other reason why the news that this year’s growth rate of th...
December 30,2002 00:00:00 AM
Faced with popular unrest, which had dramatically manifested itself in the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989, and a political backlash fr...
November 25,2002 00:00:00 AM
Why do you keep calling them when they talk down to you, my friend James Manor asked me, when I told him I would be busy at a meeting of the...
October 28,2002 00:00:00 AM
So bewildering is New Delhi’s ramshackle and overcrowded international airport for a visiting Japanese that Japanese language traveller...
September 30,2002 00:00:00 AM
When Spiderman’s uncle Ben realises that his nephew has acquired supernatural powers he has a word of sage advice for his energetic and...
August 26,2002 00:00:00 AM
Is it a measure of his efficiency in clearing files or of his ministerial under-employment that Union Disinvestment Minister Arun Shourie ha...
July 29,2002 00:00:00 AM
Murli Manohar Joshi, the Union minister for human resources development, generally barks up the wrong tree, but for a change he has raised a...
June 24,2002 00:00:00 AM
In the renewed race for the Union finance minister’s job, kicked off by speculation of an impending ministerial reshuffle, a new dimens...
June 03,2002 00:00:00 AM
The day the United States government decided to launch a military campaign against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, an American inve...
April 29,2002 00:00:00 AM
Nothing seems to bring a more satisfied smile to the sphinx-like face of Sonia Gandhi than the scent of power. When the president of the Ind...
January 29,2001 00:00:00 AM
The President of China’s major oil and gas company, PetroChina, Huang Yan, was quite categorical about the business-to-...
December 29,2000 00:00:00 AM
Never since the early days of the Rajiv Gandhi government has the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) occupied centrestage in economic policy-ma...
