A Sino-Soviet summit within this year has been put on the agenda. This is plain meaning of Mr Gorbachev’s proposal to that effect in an interview to the Chinese weekly Liaowang (Outlook). On the face of it, the Chinese response has been cool. To begin with, the Chinese official news … Read More
The Congress leadership in New Delhi has been well advised not to intervene in the internal power struggle that has inevitably broken out in the AIADMK in the wake of Mr MG Ramachandran’s death. It is important in the larger and long-term national interest that the Centre gives and is … Read More
The Indian Muslim perception of having ruled over India for a thousand years (a figure Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto popularised) played a major role in the rise of Muslim “nationalism” in the sub-continent. But as any student of history would know, this self-perception of the Indian Muslims has little relation … Read More
During the recent informal get together at the Sariska sanctuary, a senior cabinet minister is reported to have narrated his experience in wooing the Muslim vote. He had, he said, promoted a lot of development in and around a predominantly Muslim area in his constituency. But when he visited it … Read More
It speaks of the change that has come over India that anyone should use the expression “patriotic press” in a pejorative sense. Patriotism has not quite become a dirty word yet. But it could well be on the way to becoming one. The “patriotic press” in India cannot be a … Read More
After his recent meeting with President Reagan and his aides, Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been quoted as having said that the United States now sees a larger role for India in the region and beyond. Implicit in this statement is a proposition which it is doubtful the Prime Minister has … Read More
Its other results apart, Mr Rajiv Gandhi’s visit to Washington must mark the end of the destabilisation theory which the Congress Working Committee had espoused on April 18 at his instance. Surely, the Prime Minister cannot now credibly go on accusing the CIA of trying to overthrow him. A number … Read More
Generally so little is known about communist theories and practices in India that it is natural that the CPM-CPI decision virtually to run an independent anti-Rajiv campaign of their own must come as a surprise to most of even those who discuss the current political scene in the country day … Read More
Generally so little is known about communist theories and practices in India that it is natural that the CPM-CPI decision virtually to run an independent anti-Rajiv campaign of their own must come as a surprise to most of even those who discuss the current political scene in the country day … Read More
The party hosted by Mr Arif Mohammed Khan last Friday was a political event. It happened to be the day after Mr V.P. Singh’s 56th birthday. But that was apparently a pretty thin pretext for the get together. Most of the invitees were journalists. In addition to Mr Khan and … Read More
