The panel discussion, organised by Newstrack, videomagazine of the India Today group, on Wednesday (May 27) on the current trouble in Jamia Millia Islamia, was too chaotic to have helped clarify issues. Militants, students as well as teachers were present in strength and they made orderly and fruitful discussion well … Read More
Punitive actions under Super 301 and the missile technology control regime and threats of more to follow by Washington have given anti-Americanism a new legitimacy and a fresh lease of life. Since New Delhi has no choice but to continue to seek American goodwill, it cannot modify official policy in … Read More
The US administration is determined to stop India becoming a nuclear power in a meaningful sense – a power with a substantial stock of weapons with reliable means of delivery. That much is obvious from a variety of moves it has made in the wake of the collapse of the … Read More
A great deal has been written about the Bharatiya Janata Party, both before and after the meeting of the national council in Gandhinagar last week, which, in my view, lacks a clear focus and perspective. Contrary to the popular impression, the central long-term or even medium-term issue before the BJP … Read More
Punitive actions under Super 301 and the Missile Technology Control Regime and threats of more to follow by Washington have given anti-Americanism a new legitimacy and a fresh lease of life. Since New Delhi has no choice but to continue to seek American goodwill, it cannot modify official policy in … Read More
Whatever its immediate outcome, the trouble in Jamia Millia will continue to reverberate for a long time. It brings into focus issues which have a vital bearing on India’s future both as a society and a state. Five questions need to be looked at in this regard. These are Salman … Read More
Only the politically innocent can be surprised over the controversy that has broken out in the Congress(I) over the question of election to the Working Committee at Tirupati. The plain truth is that Mr Arjun Singh and Mr Sharad Pawar have challenged, even if indirectly, the authority of the party … Read More
The two principal aspirants to the office of Prime Minister within the Congress party, Mr Arjun Singh and Mr Sharad Pawar, have put themselves in an embarrassing position by revealing their hand prematurely at Tirupati. They may find it difficult to live down public display of overweening ambition. In view … Read More
While the CPM’s decision to vote against the Union budget is not likely to bring down the Narasimha Rao government, it unsettles the much trumpeted plan to forge a common anti-BJP front. For it shows that the CPM, which has to be a key player in such a front, has … Read More
The Prime Minister is not known to act on the spur of the moment. It is, therefore, a reasonable inference that he has chosen to give a clean bill of health to the BJP Government in Madhya Pradesh and to publicly acknowledge its right to continue in office for a … Read More
