If the Congress (I) leadership’s main purpose in holding the AICC session in New Delhi during the week-end was to bring its ‘democratic’ credentials into disrepute, it can claim to have gone about the task in a fairly thorough manner.
President Brezhnev’s visit to New Delhi at this time when the Soviet leadership is preoccupied with developments in Poland is a measure of the importance he and his colleagues in the Kremlin attach to relations with this country. On her part, the Indian Prime Minister, Mrs. Gandhi, has left no … Read More
We must hang our heads in shame over reports of widespread support for Bhagalpur policemen allegedly responsible for the blinding of a number of under-trial prisoners. This is a frightening commentary on the depths to which we as a people can sink without much provocation.
In a well-researched TV programme the public broadcasting service system in Washington has said that Pakistan took the decision to go in for nuclear weapons in January 1972. If this information regarding the date is accurate, as it perhaps is, it is an important disclosure. It gives the lie to … Read More
The circumstances in which Mr. Kamlapati Tripathi’s resignation from the Union cabinet has been accepted are far from clear. Since her press conference on October 21 when she singled out the railway ministry for criticism, it has been obvious that the Prime Minister has been positively unhappy with his performance … Read More
During her recent visit to Srinagar, Mrs. Gandhi said that she had not expected much from the recent meeting of non-aligned countries, including India, in Belgrade. This is an unexceptionable statement provided it is not an expression of hopelessness and a desire to let Iraq and Iran slug it out … Read More
It is reasonably clear that Mr. Kamlapati Tripathi will not press his resignation as railway minister. Mrs. Gandhi has got it conveyed to him that her criticism of the functioning of the railways at her press conference last week was not directed at him and he is quoted as having … Read More
Not many people are likely to be sorry over Mr. Prabhudas Patwari’s dismissal as governor of Tamil Nadu. He had brought the office into contempt with his antediluvian ways. He had had the temerity to insult President Sanjiva Reddy himself during the latter’s visit to Madras. It is difficult to … Read More
In its issue dated October 19-26, Radiance, official organ of the Jamaat-e-Islami, has carried an editorial on the Iraq-Iran war which deserves wider attention. As was only to be expected, it expresses unhappiness over the fact that two Muslim countries are engaged in armed hostilities against each other.
It never made much sense for Iran to hold American diplomats as hostages. The results speak for themselves. Teheran has failed to secure the return of the Shah (now dead) and his fortunes and to extract an apology from Washington for alleged misdeeds in Iran. On the contrary, by disrupting … Read More
