It is possible to sympathise with the so-called National Democratic Alliance. Its constituents – the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Lok Dal – face not one but two cruel dilemmas. First their leaders have not been in agreement on how to respond to the Akali challenge in Punjab. While Chaudhri … Read More
Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister, Mr. Ramrao Adik, has disgraced himself and the country abroad as perhaps no other well-known Indian has ever before. He is the VIP whose atrocious behaviour with two hostesses of Air India on the flight from Bombay to Frankfurt and subsequently with others, including a driver … Read More
There is widespread relief that the Union government has acceded to the Akali demand for amending Article 25 of the Constitution and thereby prevented the continuation and intensification of the Akali agitation on this issue. The president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, has spoken against the … Read More
Four of the five gubernatorial changes announced on Monday are clearly an offshoot of Mrs. Gandhi’s decision to shift Mr. BK Nehru from Srinagar. In a sense, this is not a surprise move. The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the Congress party has been unhappy with Mr. Nehru. Indeed, it … Read More
It is painful that so many educated Sikhs, even if many of them are Akalis or Akali sympathisers, should have responded the way they have to my article “The Sikhs Are In Danger” three weeks ago. And it is positively shocking that even a single Sikh, Akali or non-Akali, should … Read More
Hats off to Mr. Rajiv Gandhi. By securing the reversal of the Congress leadership’s decision to amend the Prevention of Corruption Act in order specifically to avoid prosecution of Mr AR Antulay, he has struck a blow at once for primacy of law and norms in public life. In the … Read More
So Mr. AR Antulay is above the law. So far only he and his cronies had behaved as if this was the case. Now the Prime Minister too has come to concur with this view. This is the plain implication of her decision to direct the state chief minister, Mr. … Read More
It is 11 pm in the history of the Sikh community. And the clock is ticking away relentlessly. Soon it will be too late to salvage their fortunes. The Panth is truly in danger, not as a result of an assault from outside, or of a conspiracy against it, but … Read More
It speaks for the way the Union government functions that while faced with an Akali demand for amending the Constitution to exclude the Sikhs from being treated as Hindus under Article 25, it did not even care to find out why and how the original provision had been made in … Read More
In a manner characteristic of him, the former Maharashtra chief minister, Mr. AR Antulay, is busy confusing issues arising out of the recent Supreme Court judgment which has allowed his prosecution on charges of corruption outstanding against him. He has once again put on an air of injured innocence and … Read More
