Like President Reagan, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi can claim to have chosen his targets with care. None of the four Congress leaders he has made an example of (Mr. Pranab Mukherjee, Mr. Sripat Misra, Mr. A.P. Sharma and Mr. Prakash Mehrotra) has much of a clout either in his home state … Read More
The 82-year grand old man of the Congress party, Mr. Kamlapati Tripathi, has spoken out in criticism of Mr. Rajiv Gandhi’s leadership, though still in the form of a letter to him. Mr. Tripathi has not yet divulged the contents of his communication to the party president. Indeed, he may … Read More
The so-called “Sarbat Khalsa” (a great gathering of Sikhs) at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on Sunday was of the size of a street-corner meeting in a large town. Barely 5,000 Sikhs are reported to have attended it. Some of the possible reasons for this remarkably thin attendance are obvious. … Read More
Benazir Bhutto speaks for the people of Pakistan as no one else. Indeed, it will not be an exaggeration to say that no Pakistani leader since the death of Mr. Jinnah has commanded the kind of support she does. Not even her father, Mr. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Her popularity could … Read More
The Union government is determined to transfer Chandigarh to Punjab regardless of the consequences in Haryana. This is the clear implication of the decision to appoint another commission to determine and specify the Hindi-speaking area which is to be transferred to Haryana in lieu of Chandigarh. The terms of the … Read More
It speaks for the sorry state of affairs that Sikhs in Delhi should feel called upon to take out a procession in order to register their abhorrence against the killings of innocent people by terrorists and that we should regard it necessary to welcome it. Sikhs in the capital are … Read More
