Mrs Gandhi must be rather pessimistic about the prospects in 1976 if she is indeed thinking in terms of an election to the Lok Sabha early in 1975. For, such a move can be justified only on the ground that the politico-economic situation is more likely to deteriorate than improve … Read More
If President Ford’s discussions with Chinese leaders in Peking last week have been as unproductive as several commentators have suggested, he must be said to have been ill-advised to have undertaken the trip and they to have pressed the invitation. But it is possible that the visit is not being … Read More
It is highly unlikely that the CPI leaders and their friends in the Congress seriously believe that the movement led by Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan is being supported in any way by the CIA. They cannot be so naive as to think the US administration either wishes to throw India into … Read More
There can be no question that the presidential order of November 16 falls in the category of black laws which do no credit to any genuine and functioning democracy. For, the suspension of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution cannot be justified at all except in an emergency created … Read More
Judging from the nature of the questions that were put to Dr Kissinger during his visit to New Delhi, there is less than adequate appreciation here of the big changes that have taken place in the international scene and the compulsions which have persuaded the two governments to mend their … Read More
It is unfortunate that Mr. Kissinger’s visit to New Delhi should have been preceded by a controversy here over the need to seek food imports from the United States on concessional terms. For, this has obscured the central and significant point about the trip, which is that developments over the … Read More
Mr. Kissinger could neither have been surprised nor displeased by Mr. Chiao Kuan-hua’s speech at a banquet in his honour in Peking last Sunday. The US Secretary of State could not have been surprised because he knows only too well that the Chinese are highly critical of the US policy … Read More
It is not at all surprising that the CPI has come out fairly strongly against the Payment of Bonus (Amendment) Ordinance. After all, it claims to be a party of the working class which, according to it, includes such relatively privileged sections of the community as government, bank and LIC … Read More
It is a matter of speculation whether the question of China’s need for and interest in certain kinds of US military equipment like an advanced American computer, C-141 cargo transport, satellite cameras and radar will figure in the discussions that Chinese leaders will have with Mr. Kissinger during his visit … Read More
It is, on the face of it, somewhat surprising that President Ford should be planning to undertake a journey to Peking next autumn when no important Chinese leader has returned his predecessor’s visit of February 1972. The surprise is all the greater because there has been no progress towards resolving … Read More
