13 Dec 2010
FRESH from his landslide victory in the assembly elections, Nitish Kumarseems to be in a hurry— to clean up Bihar politics. He has just turned ...
10 Dec 2010
IT is almost a month since President Barack Obama addressed MPs in the Central Hall of Parliament. As expected, he waxed eloquent about the strength ...
29 Nov 2010
THE world’s largest democracy. There is not a visiting president, prime minister or prince who fails to utter those four words, as President Obama did ...
22 Nov 2010
THE winter session of Parliament has been on for nearly a fortnight now and the only time MPs behaved like honorable members was when US ...
15 Nov 2010
CONGRESS leaders and workers in Maharashtra are beginning to wonder if there is one rule that binds the party’s leaders in their state and another ...
08 Nov 2010
ON TOP of the agenda at last week’s day long AICC session was the selection of the 23 member Congress Working Committee, the party’s highest ...
01 Nov 2010
ONE IS the ruling party at the Centre and the other the main Opposition but the dividing line between the Congress and the BJP on ...
25 Oct 2010
EARLY NEXT month, New Delhi will roll out the red carpet for US President Barack Obama. There will be a lot of protocol, pomp, diplomacy ...
18 Oct 2010
MONEY, blackmail, lies and deception have always been the lifeblood of politics. Nowhere is this truer than in Karnataka where over the past few weeks ...
11 Oct 2010
IT WOULD be no exaggeration to say that if a list of all the buildings, roads, airports, stadia, colleges, universities and social welfare programmes across ...
04 Oct 2010
THREE cheers. Hip hip Hooray!!!! Finally Indians have come to their senses; we as a nation have matured and are keen to put behind the ...
20 Sep 2010
WHEN he was appointed general secretary of the Indian National Congress three years ago, Rahul Gandhi was given charge of the party’s youth wings — ...
13 Sep 2010
POLITICS, they say, is the art of the possible. Just four months after the two sides went through a messy divorce, the BJP and the ...
10 Sep 2010
IF ANYONE ran Suresh Kalmadi close on the front pages of newspapers and on TV last week, it wasn’t Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee ...
06 Sep 2010
POLITICS is about the unpredictable. Except when it involves an election in the Congress party where a member of the dynasty is in the fray. ...
30 Aug 2010
THIS Friday marks the first death anniversary of Andhra Pradesh’s charismatic chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy. It will also mark one year of grandstanding by ...
23 Aug 2010
ITS MANY achievements — and failures — notwithstanding, the Right to Information Act which came into effect during the early days of UPAI was truly ...
16 Aug 2010
THERE is only one thing worse than being remembered and that is not being remembered at all. This is a dilemma that President Pratibha Patil ...
09 Aug 2010
MAKING political predictions is a difficult task. Ask the psephologists. The task gets even tougher should you be brave or foolish enough to predict the ...
02 Aug 2010
THERE is a fear of the unknown that is stalking the UPA-II which now threatens to cripple the government. In a week that saw Narendra ...