The election to the eighth Lok Sabha has turned out to be a referendum. The Indian people have voted for Rajiv Gandhi and the Congress party – in that order as far as we can see. They have by and large not cared for the candidates and their reputation and … Read More
Apparently the Congress party under Rajiv Gandhi’s leadership is set to win a kind of victory only a few people had expected or anticipated. This raises two questions. How has this massive victory been possible? And what does it portend for the future? To begin with, let us admit that … Read More
During his election tour of Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi is quoted as having questioned Mr. NT Rama Rao’s moral right to stay on for well over three months as a caretaker chief minister after having dissolved the state assembly. One possible implication of the statement is Mr. Rama Rao … Read More
Following the publication of a report in the New Delhi daily Patriot on Sunday, the US state department on Monday confirmed that it did commission a study by Prof. Robert L. Hardgrave. The study, however, deals mainly with the likely course of events in India in coming years and not … Read More
It is not for us mere journalists to decide whether astrology is a science, or an art, or a kind of psychotherapy, or plain fraud on the gullible. Many of us publish weekly forecasts by astrologers mainly because our readers want them, indeed insist on them. Clearly no newspaper would … Read More
It will be an exaggeration to describe Asoka Mehta as the last of the Mohicans. Some of them are still around, Achyut Patwardhan for instance. And if Achyut Patwardhan gave up active politics years ago to take up the search for his own spiritual and the society’s moral uplift, Asoka … Read More
