Following the publication of a report in the New Delhi daily Patriot on Sunday, the US state department on Monday confirmed that it did commission a study by Prof. Robert L. Hardgrave. The study, however, deals mainly with the likely course of events in India in coming years and not … Read More
It is not for us mere journalists to decide whether astrology is a science, or an art, or a kind of psychotherapy, or plain fraud on the gullible. Many of us publish weekly forecasts by astrologers mainly because our readers want them, indeed insist on them. Clearly no newspaper would … Read More
It will be an exaggeration to describe Asoka Mehta as the last of the Mohicans. Some of them are still around, Achyut Patwardhan for instance. And if Achyut Patwardhan gave up active politics years ago to take up the search for his own spiritual and the society’s moral uplift, Asoka … Read More
The Bharatiya Janata Party leadership’s reaction to Mr. Nanaji Deshmukh’s appeal for support to Mr. Rajiv Gandhi is understandable. Coming as it does from a man with life-long connection with the RSS without the support of which the BJP will find it extremely difficult, if not impossible, to fare well … Read More
As Prime Minister, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi has lived up to his mother’s commitment. She had assured the Indian people that the election to the Lok Sabha would be held on time. He has now scheduled it for December 24 and 27, that is, well over three weeks before the life … Read More
Never ever before has November 14 come upon us amidst such tragedy. Even if we go through some routine functions, our hearts and minds will be elsewhere – fluctuating between the bullet-ridden body of Indira Gandhi we have just cremated and the calm, collected Rajiv Gandhi we have installed in … Read More
It is clearly impossible for us to vouch for the accuracy or otherwise of President Reagan’s reported letter to President Zia-ul-Haq. On the face of it, it is difficult to believe that a communication of such far reaching importance – it offers a nuclear umbrella to Pakistan and a continuation … Read More
The outcome was not in doubt at any stage. Reagan’s re-election was assured from the very start. Not only was he the incumbent of that great office, his record had been pretty impressive in the eyes of a vast majority of the American people. The economy had done well in … Read More
We are in no position to assess the accuracy to whatever degree or otherwise of what is being said quite openly by both the victims of the communal holocaust in the capital and elsewhere, and many others. Prejudices and partisan considerations easily come into play in such situations. As a … Read More
Yeats spoke of things falling apart because the centre could not hold. In our case things have been threatening to fall apart but have not because the centre held. That centre for almost two decades has been Indira Gandhi. In a strange way, this was true even during the Janata … Read More
