In her address to the Congress (I) parliamentary party on Sunday, Mrs. Gandhi was rather vague in respect of her assessment of recent developments in Jammu and Kashmir. This is understandable. In her position as Prime Minister, she cannot always be candid and explicit. Even so, three points emerge from … Read More
It will be interesting to wait and see whether the Pakistan government, through its otherwise ultra-active embassy in New Delhi, offers a detailed rebuttal of what The Statesman has said in connection with its involvement with the activities of extremist Sikhs in India. Some of the points the daily has … Read More
It is doubtful whether as India’s Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi would wish to engage in a serious effort to find solutions to various conflicts in West Asia. She would know that the problems are too complex to yield to well-meant advice, that India has no clout whatever in dealing … Read More
As President Zia-ul-Haq enters the seventh year of his harsh reign in Pakistan, it does not look as if he is about to face a serious challenge. The eight-party movement for restoration of democracy (MRD) put up a show of resistance on July 6 to draw attention to the fact … Read More
Not much importance need be attached to the US secretary of state, Mr. George Shultz’s visit to New Delhi. His main business lay elsewhere – Bangkok and Islamabad. It would have been impolite and worse (an unnecessary rude snub) for him to have avoided the Indian capital on this trip. … Read More
Chandra Shekhar is a rare phenomenon in Indian politics. A man of transparent sincerity, honesty, courage and commitment in these cynical times when self-aggrandizement has become the rule in our public life. Now he has become a unique phenomenon. No other Indian, not even a Jain monk, has ever walked … Read More
LE MONDE, Paris, has carried a sensational report to the effect that France has agreed to lease five Exocet-armed super Etendard jets to Iraq. If this report is accurate which there is no reason to doubt, this is the first time that France has taken such a dramatic step in … Read More
So Mrs. Gandhi has turned out to be a Hindu communalist. What doubt can there be when not only the self-appointed guardians of Islam such as Col. Gaddafy but also one of the arch-priests of secularism, the secretary-general of the Communist Party of India, Mr. C Rajeswara Rao, says so? … Read More
No words are too strong to condemn the orgy of violence, loot and arson in certain parts of Srinagar on Tuesday. The National Conference leaders cannot avoid their share of responsibility for it. They, of course, did not incite their so-called supporters to attack localities where by and large the … Read More
It does not look as if it is a mere accident that Mr. Swaraj Paul should have been the first businessman of ‘“Indian origin” to have decided to invest in this country in a big way and that he should have sought to acquire in one go more shares in … Read More
