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Articles 16021 through 16120 of 16899:
- Can The Congress Recover? (Telegraph, Ashok V. Desai, Dec 30, 2003)
Nationality is an artificial and irrational construct. The world is divided into nations, and nations have governments. They devise rules on nationality that they find politically convenient. But wherever there is a government, there must be the governed;
- Halfway House (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
Politicians speak in code. Other politicians know how to decipher it. Thus the obvious has a significance which lies beneath the surface and literal meaning. When Ms Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Congress, says that the question about her being a ...
- Nurseries Of Alienation (Hindu, Mihir Shah, Dec 30, 2003)
Geographical enclavement in a remote pocket has provided the physical basis for a kind of "internal colonialism" faced by Adivasis throughout India.
- Bjp Changes Tack (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 30, 2003)
BJP leaders in charge of assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh in particular insisted that they had made a conscious decision to steer clear of the Ram Mandir issue and other matters connected with Hindutva.
- ‘hindutva And Development Are Not Antagonistic’ (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 30, 2003)
As the BJP seeks to exploit its victory in the recent state assembly elections and return to power in the 2004 Lok Sabha election, Neerja Chowdhury interviews HRD minister and senior party leader Murli Manohar Joshi to get an insight into the BJP’s mind.
- Politics Of Alliances (Tribune, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Dec 30, 2003)
THE Congress party is now facing up to an incontrovertible political fact. If it is to be a serious contender for power it will have to forge complicated political alliances across India, as it feels now. But crafting alliances is a delicate game, not ...
- Coming: A Happy New Year (Telegraph, Shankar Aiyar, Dec 30, 2003)
“Writing,” wrote Hazlitt, “concentrates the mind wonderfully.” Defeat does so even more wonderfully. Even while those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad, so as the Bharatiya Janata Party reels drunken with triumphalism over its upset ...
- Will Bjp’s Hype Turn Into Votes? (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 29, 2003)
If hype is an indicator of victory, and the BJP has certainly managed to create it around its victory in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, then the party is on its way to notching up the 300 Lok Sabha seats that Venkaiah Naidu has been talking
- Getting Back (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
If politics was simply a matter of cold calculation and self-interest, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Mr Kalyan Singh, should never have been reduced to a marginal figure in Mr Mulayam Singh Yadav’s camp. A formidable campaigner and ...
- Looking For Friends (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
THE Congress decision on Friday to forge alliances with like-minded parties in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections is in tune with its outline for such arrangements drawn at its Shimla conclave and the recommendation of the Pranab Mukherjee report. Actual
- Sonia For Alliance First, Leadership Later (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
2004: ‘Let people decide if I’m acceptable as PM, I want to work with other parties’
- Iraq Isn’t Vietnam, But They Rhyme (Indian Express, ROBERT G. KAISER , Dec 29, 2003)
Is Iraq another Vietnam? The question, heard often now, implies more specific questions: Are we caught in another quagmire? Are we dooming thousands of young Americans to a premature death? Have we again lost our way? ‘‘History doesn’t repeat itself, at
- Kalyan Tea With Pm Upsets Cong, Calls For Ouster From Govt (Indian Express, Amit Sharma, Dec 29, 2003)
As ally Congress demanded the ouster of Kalyan Singh’s Rashtriya Kranti Party (RKP) from the Uttar Pradesh ruling coalition for ‘‘hobnobbing with the BJP’’, Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav today evaded a direct reply, saying: ‘‘Mujhe na kuch dikhai ...
- An Unrealistic Approach? (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 29, 2003)
A section in the Congress believes that Sonia Gandhi made a significant concession when she argued in Mumbai today that the Congress would not insist on her leadership as a pre-condition on potential alliance partners. Technically, this is not an ...
- A Party’s Fine Balance (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 29, 2003)
The Congress has already heard what the Pranab Mukherjee report is going to say
- Naqvi To Muslims: Don’t Rely Solely On Govt For Jobs (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2003)
BJP general secretary Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi today exhorted Muslims to stop relying solely on the government for jobs.
- Who All Can Resign, Who All Can Reject (Indian Express, Raju Santhanam, Dec 28, 2003)
“Rejected,’’ I screamed at Mukul, my man Friday who sent me his resignation letter.
I know resignation letters the world over are handled differently. Did Sonia Gandhi scream when she rejected the resignations of party faithfuls in the CWC? I would
- Sonia Starts Early, Thinks Big (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 28, 2003)
Even as political circles are abuzz with talk of the likelihood of snap polls, Congress president Sonia Gandhi unofficially launched her party’s poll campaign in Maharashtra today. The resurgent mood among Congressmen present at the rally at Shivaji Park
- With A Little Help, She Fills Shivaji Park (Indian Express, Sonu Chhina, Dec 28, 2003)
She filled Shivaji Park. It’s an achievement Mumbai’s most powerful leader, Shiv Sena’s Bal Thackeray, hasn’t been able to notch for years. The turnout gave the Congress a fig leaf to cover its early December shame.
- Rain And Shine (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 27, 2003)
He is one Vedic god who refuses to oblige. But this has been the year when Lord Varuna has been more than kind to India. So much so, that the showers might result in early general elections
- Ls Polls In Mind, Cong For A ‘secular’ Alliance To Take On Nda (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 27, 2003)
With the Assembly polls rout making it amply clear that it can no longer go it alone at the hustings, the Congress today invited all national and regional parties for a ‘‘secular, progressive alliance.’’
- On Birthday, Pm Looks Forward, Hints At Polls Sooner Rather Than Later (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 26, 2003)
We’ve won but can’t rest. Time is of essence: PM in statesman-stamped speech
- Ec Strikes (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
Amarinder, Jogi, Sonia asked for the rap
- Dollar: Thrown Into The Vortex Of Unknown (Business Line, D. Sambandhan, Dec 26, 2003)
IN TODAY'S world economy, the yellow metal is not international money officially, but just a commodity and, yet, it has begun to merit attention from international money and hedge fund managers as an attractive asset to stay in and get out, in view of the
- Dissidence In Congress (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
WITH THE DISSIDENT faction in the Punjab unit of the Congress agreeing to let the AICC president, Sonia Gandhi, handle the inner-party rivalry, the Chief Minister, Amarinder Singh, appears to have earned a respite. The Agriculture Minister, ...
- Defective Politics (Hindu, Rajeev Dhavan , Dec 26, 2003)
The latest amendment to the anti-defection law is flawed. Defections will not be eliminated.
- Supreme Court Has Stood Up For The Meek (Tribune, S.S. Negi , Dec 26, 2003)
2003 will certainly go down in the histroy of Indian judiciary as an eventful and significant year with the Supreme Court writing some new chapters in the jurisprudence book by giving candid opinions on controversial issues like the common civil code ...
- Pawar To Cong: We’re Willing But Get Back To Us By Dec 31 (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 26, 2003)
In a move to deflect pressure after the Telgi heat claimed its No 2 man in Maharashtra, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) today indicated it was willing to ignore the issue of Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin the very basis for the NCP’s birth for a
- Till Health Do Us Part (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 25, 2003)
AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa may be ‘‘Amma’’ for the rest of us, but not for the DMK’s A. Raja, former minister of state for health. His Amma is Sushma Swaraj. The secret came out when his boss, M. Karunanidhi, ordered he resign from the Union council of
- Gandhi’s Quotemartial (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
First the Mahatma was branded, now he’s being distilled into soundbites
- Behind Bhujbal's Departure (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
IT WAS NO accident that it was the Nationalist Congress Party president, Sharad Pawar, who announced that his controversial man in the Congress-NCP coalition Government in Maharashtra, Chhagan Bhujbal, was stepping down. As a man well versed in ...
- Resignation, For What? (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
MR Chagan Bhujbal resigned as Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra owning up "moral” responsibility for the attack on the office of a television network by his supporters. Had they just carried the flags of the NCP, Mr Sharad Pawar and not Mr Bhujbal ...
- A Story Of Factional Oneupmanship (Hindu, K.K. Katyal, Dec 25, 2003)
In the end, it was to be a mega non-event — the talk of "resignation" by the central office-bearers of the Congress and the members of the Congress Working Committee. It turned out to be a story of factional oneupmanship, and of lessons unlearnt. After
- Bhujbal Stamped Out (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 25, 2003)
His departure will help uncover links between politicians and scamsters in the stamp paper scandal
- Dmk Gives Up On Nda (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Dec 25, 2003)
THERE is nothing surprising or unexpected about the decision of the Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) to quit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ruling in New Delhi. Long before this denouement its shadows had been visible. Some may argue that...
- Rewrite Her Social Contract (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 25, 2003)
For a 16-day session in which Parliament enacted 21 laws, including two constitutional amendments, there is little surprise in a small change made to marriage laws going virtually unnoticed. The ban on defections, for instance, being extended to party ...
- Deeds Of Darkness (Telegraph, Bhaskar Ghose, Dec 24, 2003)
The campaigns conducted by different political parties in the recent elections in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan and Delhi have brought to public notice the use of advanced electronic technology by politicians for various purposes. I am not refer
- Dmk’s Tantrums (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
THE resignation of two DMK representatives from the Union Council of Ministers — Mr T. R. Baalu and Mr A. Raja — was not entirely unexpected. The development itself will have no bearing on national politics or the stability of the Atal Bihari Vajpayee ...
- Verdict? Not Guilty (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
FORMER Prime Minister Narasimha Rao has been cleared of the charge of having cheated NRI pickle-maker Lakhubhai Pathak. Controversial godman Chandraswami and his right-hand man K. N. Agarwal too were acquitted by a Delhi court. The judiciary decides cases
- Party Pooper (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
Class, it is said in cricket, is permanent, while form is temporary. Following this, it can be said that for the fate of a political party the organization is permanent, and defeats in election are temporary setbacks. Unfortunately for the Congress ...
- Political Bosses As Reformers (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 24, 2003)
The new anti-defection law does not address the core of the problem: entrenched traditions and practices of bossism in every political party.
- Dmk's Withdrawal Of Ministers — Start Of The Great Political Churn? (Business Line, Rasheeda Bhagat , Dec 24, 2003)
IT WAS like living for a long time in a rented house where neither the tenant is comfortable nor the landlord happy. So after occupying for over four years a slot in the BJP-led NDA Government at the Centre, the DMK has at long last opted out.
- Bhujbal Turns In Papers, Telgi Is Stamped All Over (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
Maharashtra Deputy CM resigns, fig leaf: freedom of the press; NCP may replace him with two from party
- Moment Of Triumph (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 24, 2003)
THE FORMER PRIME Minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao, must feel that the legal clouds that hung gloomily over him have finally lifted. With his acquittal in the Lakhubhai Pathak case, Mr. Rao has been cleared in the third and last corruption case in ...
- Outsourcing To Offshoring, It Is Advantage India (Business Line, V. Sriram , Dec 24, 2003)
OUTSOURCING by the US is assuming massive proportions. The reason is "it saves money, time and frees in-house staff to do work central to the company's core mission." What is saved? Thirty-forty per cent, estimates the solutions group, Loud Cloud. Its CEO
- The Dmk's Shrewd Play (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
THE DRAVIDA MUNNETRA Kazhagam's exit from the National Democratic Alliance is a function of shrewd, hardheaded political calculation rather than of the high-sounding reasons spelt out in the resolution of the party's high-level policy committee, ...
- Catfish That Spoilt The Vietnamese Party (Business Line, K. Subramanian, Dec 23, 2003)
IT WAS not long ago that the heroic people of Vietnam humbled the US in a bitter war. By 1995, the relations between the two countries had been normalised. Soon, pressures were on the former communist society to adopt the `market economy' model. Vietnam,
- On V-Day, The Insider Turns Less Political, More Philosophical (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
Former Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao was beaming today as he made an honourable exit from the last of his legal tangles.
- Gujarat’s Sc Defence: No One Told Us About The Acquittals (Indian Express, Manoj Mitta, Dec 23, 2003)
In an affidavit filed last week before the Supreme Court to explain its failure to do justice to the post-Godhra riot victims, the Gujarat government came up with an array of excuses but one stood out: the state government claimed it learnt of acquittals
- Confusion After Polls (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 23, 2003)
THE en-mass resignation of Congress Working Committee (CWC) members and All-India Congress Committee (AICC) office-bearers is too hackneyed to enthuse party workers. Whoever had thought of this idea had not been original for beginning with the Kamaraj ...
- Cong Leaders Quit For Madam, She Says Who Asked You For It (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 22, 2003)
Thrashing for answers in a sea of crises, AICC leaders today clutched at every Congressman’s last straw, resignation, with most of them ‘‘voluntarily’’ quitting their posts in the Congress Working Committee.
- In Raipur, Cbi Switches To Jogi Audio (Indian Express, Ashwani Sharma, Dec 22, 2003)
Cash-for-MLA: Party summons ex-CM to Delhi, may soon decide his fate
- Good Flagoff (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
VIGYAN Rail, which was flagged off by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is a good initiative to showcase the nation’s achievements in science and technology. Both the President and the Prime Minister can take justifiable pride in the scientific and ...
- Still Not The Perfect Shine (Telegraph, S. L. Rao, Dec 22, 2003)
At a recent conference on globalization the discussion was focussed on the “how” rather than the “what” or “why” issues that had dominated the subject until recently. The success stories of Indian companies that had begun to look at the world as the ...
- Dmk Ministers Ignore Last Minute Bjp Request, Resign (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 22, 2003)
Unmoved by conciliatory voices from the BJP camp, the two DMK ministers in the NDA Government—Environment Minister T.R. Baalu and Minister of State for Health A. Raja—called on Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee here today and put in their papers.
- Two Alone (Indian Express, Vandita Mishra, Dec 22, 2003)
In the week the general unleashed his goodwill offensive on the question of plebiscite in Kashmir, Britain’s FINANCIAL TIMES offered a provocative thesis. India and Pakistan have so far relied on Washington to coax and pressure them into talking, but the
- Take It Or Fall Behind (Telegraph, Barun De, Dec 22, 2003)
Does south Asia have genuinely independent alternatives for more self-respecting national futures
- Post-Mortem (Indian Express, Manini Chatterjee, Dec 21, 2003)
No whitewash job, Sonia wants a thorough report on poll debacle
- In Pre-Poll Season, Dmk Sends Nda A Farewell Card (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
Pullout comes, ironically, at a time when BJP wasn’t warm to Amma
- Cong, Left See New Equation With Dmk (Indian Express, Kota Neelima, Dec 21, 2003)
The DMK pullout from the NDA government has opened up various permutations for the Congress and the Left forces, each seeing the DMK as a possible ally in the future.
- ‘poll Managers? Jaitley Never Fought One, Mahajan Lost His Ls Election’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 21, 2003)
• Congress seems to be suffering from cancer. A popular government, cooperative allies, and a chief minister with a clean image. I am talking about Kerala where senior leader K Karunakaran and his son-elect-KPCC chief is trying to destabilise the ...
- Doing Nothing Is Hard Work (Telegraph, Khushwant Singh, Dec 20, 2003)
I spent my childhood and youth shirking work by bunking school and college lectures. But for the fear of parents and teachers, I had no problem spending my days playing and loafing about. That attitude to life continued into the years in office. I found
- Across The Thin Saffron Line (Telegraph, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 19, 2003)
Hinduism in Public and Private: Reform, Hindutva, Gender and Sampraday Edited by Antony Copley, Oxford, Rs 595
- Congress Itself To Blame (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 19, 2003)
A decision delayed also turns out to be a decision denied. Punjab is facing this unfortunate situation because of the Amarinder-Bhattal standoff which the Congress high command has not yet resolved fully. The high command should have taken a firm decision
- Free Power? No One (Indian Express, Bhavna Vij, Dec 19, 2003)
Free electricity to attract votes may soon be a thing of the past because even the main Opposition, the Congress, today backed reforms in the power sector, urging the PM to take measures aimed at ending the practice of free power and massive subsidies.
- Supreme Court And The Common Man (Hindu, Ambrose Pinto , Dec 19, 2003)
The Supreme Court breathed life into Article 21 of the Constitution by expanding the meaning of the words "right to life" as not mere animal existence, but as life with dignity.
- Operation Desert Storm (Telegraph, ANURADHA KUMAR, Dec 19, 2003)
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide win by a margin of 120 seats in Rajasthan surprised even its most ardent supporters. The portents were evident as early as last year’s by-elections in three assembly constituencies. The present election campaign ...
- Pension Reform, This Time For Mps, Too (Indian Express, Amitav Ranjan, Dec 18, 2003)
Cabinet:Decides today on proposal to relax norms, benefit another 1400
- Measure For Measure: States Vie To Do Better (Indian Express, Pamela Philipose, Dec 18, 2003)
State-specific HDRs throw up piquant data. No wonder they are becoming part of poll discourse
- Family Calling (Indian Express, Arati R. Jerath, Dec 18, 2003)
Visitors to 10 Janpath on Sonia Gandhi’s birthday were surprised to see Priyanka in active attendance. Usually she keeps herself well hidden from hoi polloi flocking to Sonia’s residence, bearing flowers, dholaks and good wishes. This year, however, she
- False Flag (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
Secularism is an absolute value. It should be valued absolutely. One cannot be a secularist one day and a soft Hindutvawallah the day after. Ms Sonia Gandhi has an identity problem but this has nothing to do with the fact that she is an Italian born India
- The Political Stain (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 18, 2003)
Prime Minister Vajpayee shows how the debate on corruption must be recast
- Telgi’s Jigsaw Puzzle (Indian Express, T.V.R. Shenoy, Dec 18, 2003)
A pet peeve for Delhiites is the multiplicity of authorities who operate in the city, or rather the utter lack of communication between them. No sooner has the Jal Board finished digging up a road that it is the turn of the Municipal Corporation to do so
- When Vajpayee Spoke Like Nehru (Hindu, Harish Khare , Dec 18, 2003)
Because of the media's preoccupation with the Indian cricket victory in Australia and with the excitement over the POTA amendment, not much attention has been paid to the import of the Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee's performance in the Rajya ...
- ‘dubey Enforces Our Belief In Human Values ’ (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
There is no place for honest people in our system. If they do not get killed — they are shunted out on branch lines to obscurity. The only solution is to dismantle the system.
Raghubir Singh
- Both Jogi, Judeo Cases A Disgrace: Vajpayee (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 17, 2003)
Calling the Judeo and Jogi cases a ‘‘disgrace’’ and ‘‘black spots’’, a visibly upset Prime Minister today tried to take a bitter debate to a higher plane when he urged all parties to rise above politics and ponder on ‘‘what’s happening in the country’’ an
- Opp Demand: Get Us Whistleblower Law, Go And Nail Dubey’s Killers (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
The government was put on the dock today as Opposition members in the Rajya Sabha demanded a comprehensive statement from the Minister for Road Transport and Highways B C Khanduri on the murder of IIT engineer Satyendra Dubey in Bihar who tried to expose
- 2004 Will Be Fought On 3 Issues: Vajpayee Vs Sonia, Nda Vs Disunited Opposition & Five Years Vs Fifty (Indian Express, Shekhar Gupta, Dec 16, 2003)
Fresh from overseeing his party’s successful state election campaign, Pramod Mahajan, BJP general secretary and former Union minister, spoke to Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express. Excerpts from the interview telecast on NDTV 24x7’s Walk
- Netaji Desires (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Dec 16, 2003)
THE release of the Katwal audio tapes, in which Mr Virbhadra Singh and two of his colleagues, Mr Singhi Ram and Mr Kuldeep Kumar, had allegedly sought from Mr S.M Katwal, the then Chairman of the HPSSB, the favour of appointment of some candidates when...
- She May Be Cong But Najma’s Returning To Rs With Govt Help (Indian Express, Neerja Chowdhury, Dec 16, 2003)
Rajya Sabha deputy chairperson Najma Heptulla is all set to get a Presidential nomination to the Upper House. Highly placed sources confirmed to The Indian Express that her file had gone to Rashtrapati Bhavan for the President’s signature and an ...
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