136 articles
From Sankar Ray Nonagenarian polit bureau member of CPI(M) Jyoti Basu once again proved his uncommon horse sense by reminding senior party functionaries and ran...
By Kuldip Nayar STRANGE, there was no effort, no persuasion by the BJP to keep Atal Behari Vajpayee in harness. Here was a person who gave the party a liberal f...
By J Sri Raman There is no word from Mr Vajpayee or Mr Advani to explicitly recant on their recent rhetoric over the "India-Pakistan peace moves". These moves w...
By Manjula Lal The recent 244-page report, 'Threatened Existence: A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat', brought out by the International Initiative f...
By Prof. A.C. Bose Thrice in the last three weeks president Musharraf has changed his tone and stand on Kashmir. Toward the end of March he suddenly struck a di...
Mini-budget and after By Praful Bidwai If the National Democratic Alliance wanted to deliver an insulting parting kick to the 13th Lok Sabha, it could not have ...
By Rakshat Puri INDIAN Punjab's Chief Minister Amarinder Singh visited Pakistani Punjab recently. His visit coincided with the World Punjabi Conference which wa...
By Prof. A.C. Bose When the top mandarins of the MEAs of India and Pakistan are meeting at Islamabad to talk about talks at a future date it is time that one sh...
By Kuldip Nayar THERE was practically no discussion on Bofors gun kickbacks in the 13th Lok Sabha which has been dissolved for early elections. Once Rajiv Gandh...
By Prof. N.K. Singh One of the serious problems facing country side and in the cities is concerning infrastructure. The critical areas are many but nothing coun...
By Inder Malhotra On the vexed and vexatious issue of nuclear nonproliferation is there going to be no end to the hypocrisy of the western nations, led by the U...
By Vinod Mehta Child labour is a world phenomenon-and a world problem. There are around 210.8 million children in the 5-14 age group who are engaged in some for...
By Rakshat Puri PRIME MINISTER Vajpayee's Government is reported to have proposed to the Election Commission "that the Deputy Prime Minister, L. K. Advani, be a...
By Muddassir Rizvi We soondiscovered that representation alone, no matter how many seats, will not change the deeply ingrained social attitudes towards women. W...
By Inder Malhotra OVER a week after nuclear proliferation by Pakistan - the biggest and the worst scandal of its kind since the dawn of the nuclear age - burst ...
By Ma Guihua The trafficking of young girls for sex and entertainment from south-western China's Yunnan Province to neighbouring Asian countries is a harsh real...
By Surendra Mohan Dr. A. Q. Khan, father of the Pakistan's nuclear bomb, who had assembled the nuclear technology by stealing the secrets while working in Nethe...
By Arun Nehru UP with 80 seats is crucial and I have factored into the figures a BJP/Kalyan Singh alliance, a BSP/Congress agreement and the SP/RLD combination....
By Rafique A. Khan Maqbool Butt, Last Days Azmat Khan in his account, Maqbool Butt (Shaheed) - Full Story notes that: "Difficult as it was the political campaig...
By Imtiaz Mir Which side are the minorities on, at the coming general elections? Who will they be voting for? Which party will the minorities support? These are...