Monthly Archives: June 1993

On reflection, Mr P V Narasimha Rao should be regretting the message of congratulations he sent to Mr Nawaz Sharif on the latter’s reinstatement as Pakistan’s prime minister by that country’s supreme court in an unprecedented display of ‘independence’. Mr Sharif survives in office but precariously. The prime minister’s own … Read More →

Not many of our politicians can be said to be overburdened with principles. But hardly any one of them can be said to be a practitioner of realpolitik either. This paradox is not particularly difficult to explain. Our politicians are mostly small-time operators who do not allow any principle, or … Read More →