Articles with tag: vajpayee
Prisoner of Conscience or Conscious Prisoner?
Farzana Versey May 29, 2006 interacts: 58V.P.Singh is back with a new Jan Morcha. Look at the timing. ‘Mandal 2’ is staining the streets. Is he capitalising on the wave? He says in this interview, “We are sitting on a volcano. The very backward are looking up to me. In 15 years
Ba, Beti aur Bahu
Farzana Versey Apr 5, 2006 interacts: 95Uma Bharti is putting on the loner act for only one reason – to save the BJP’s top rung. The real loner here is Sonia. Her godfathers are ghosts. Are both of them “mind-controlled victims”?
Careless Consciences
Farzana Versey Jun 15, 2004 interacts: 277Vajpayee is invoking the inner voice. And if the Mahatma could use it, then it ought not to surprise anyone that Sonia Gandhi is resorting to it too.
Bring on The Empty Horses
Farzana Versey May 10, 2004 interacts: 105They are the new face of Indian politics. The branding of democracy with a stamp of supra-populism. The marketplace where you do not need to buy masses to listen to speeches, but to purchase the glamour of fringe stars
The Beginning of the End of the Kashmir Problem
Dost Mittar May 13, 2003 interacts: 206Do not underestimate either the love or the hatred that the peoples of the two countries are capable of having towards each other
Rightsizing of the Armed Forces
Riffat Jahan Feb 6, 2003 interacts: 101the huge Pak Army fulfils few strategic functions
The Kashmir Committee: Ram in U.S
Romeet K Watt Dec 14, 2002 interacts: 17Ram Jethmalani, to further the agenda of KC, recently made a trip to US
The Unmaking Of Gujrat
Farzana Versey Dec 11, 2002 interacts: 263The key players in these elections and therefore Indian polity seem like characters in a drama of the absurd.
Peace in South Asia
Yasser Latif Hamdani Aug 18, 2002 interacts: 366Arundhati Roy gave the Pakistanis a glimpse of what free-thinking is
The Hindu Right
Ra Ravishankar Aug 6, 2002 interacts: 184Advani’s yathra in an air-conditioned Toyota left a trail of blood in its wake
An Insight Into the Way Shiv Sena Functions
Harish Nambiar Feb 6, 2002 interacts: 90This political sex appeal of Thackerey is the reason that Shiv Sena shakhaas have sprung up in Haryana and Punjab
An Indian salute for President Musharraf
Harish Nambiar Jan 12, 2002 interacts: 560On January 12, President Musharraf exhibited the moral courage of the man with character who has been called by destiny to the antechamber of history.
1971: A Forgotten Story
Farzana Versey Jan 5, 2002 interacts: 218We ‘forgot’ to ask for our men to be returned
Indian Diplomacy : Time To Recheck
Amit Mathur Jan 4, 2002 interacts: 25The year saw a marked upswing in new Delhi’s relations with the US, Russia, Japan, Germany and France
The Indo-Pak Summit, Kashmir and the Taj Mahal
Ras Siddiqui Jul 8, 2001 interacts: 142One cannot expect a solution from just one summit on the complex Kashmir problem ...
The Quest for Power
Mushahid Hussain Jun 26, 2001 interacts: 143It took General Zia 14 months after the July 1977 coup to assume the Presidency, while General Musharraf waited 20 months to do the same
Talking to Vajpayee
Mushahid Hussain Jun 18, 2001 interacts: 371Vajpayee has demonstrated that he can be different
The Imperatives of Power
Haider Nizamani Oct 4, 2000 interacts: 182A physically injured leader has won hands down against the leader of a psychologically injured nation in the world of diplomacy
Let us Not be Foolish
Ras Siddiqui Feb 19, 2000 interacts: 188Mistakes, misunderstandings and downright hate have led us too long in India-Pakistan relations...
In the Supreme National Interest
Iftikhar Rahman Feb 11, 2000 interacts: 245the days of loot and plunder are over
Resolving the Hijack Crisis
Udayakumar Dec 26, 1999 interacts: 155The timing of the IC-814 hijack crisis portends several things
Pakistan: Rapprochement with India ‘unstoppable’
Beena Sarwar Oct 19, 1999 interacts: 212One thing is clear: people want peace with India
Text of Speech by Gen. Pervez Musharraf
Press Room Oct 17, 1999 interacts: 129The choice before us on Oct 12th was between saving the body - that is the nation, at the cost of a limb - which is the Constitution, or saving the limb and losing the whole body
Masala Democracy
Neil Aggarwal Oct 14, 1999 interacts: 21Only in South Asia would a masala mix of militancy, neglect of the masses, and elite politics pass for democracy
Save India
Veer Kumar Jul 27, 1999 interacts: 52A martial law administration has to take over the country
India’s Failure of Imagination
Rohan Oberoi Jul 2, 1999 interacts: 62No one in India, it seems, has a clue what people across the border in Pakistan are thinking
A Visit to Pakistan
Vinod Vyasulu Jun 24, 1999 interacts: 22Could it be that there is a feeling that India does not accept the existence of Pakistan?
Pokhran-Chaghi audit: Winners and losers
Pervez Hoodbhoy Jun 4, 1999 interacts: 15India and Pakistan conducted their nuclear tests one year ago.
Why Vajpayee’s Trip to Lahore Was a Failure
Rohan Oberoi Feb 22, 1999 interacts: 31Vajpayee’s bus trip can be described in one word: nothing
Getting Ready for ‘Bus Diplomacy’
Beena Sarwar Feb 19, 1999 interacts: 35Vajpayee and Sharif get creative. First bombs then bus rides.
Nuclear Bomb for Sale
Pervez Hoodbhoy and Shiv Visvanathan Jul 6, 1998 interacts: 11the demand for nuclear bombs outstripped that of mangoes, movies, health services, designer labels, paan, clean water,
Onwards to the Nuclear Abyss
Feroz R Khan Jun 18, 1998 interacts: 6India, Pakistan and the March of Folly
Getting to Yes
Salman Akhtar Jun 1, 1998 interacts: 1Not to test was to permanently accept Indian domination.
Compilation of Articles and Opinions on India’s Nuclear Test
Chowk Contributors May 24, 1998 interacts: 1The events surrounding the nuclear tests conducted by India have resulted in a number of articles and opinions. This is a compilation of those articles.
Patriot Games
Shiv Visvanathan May 18, 1998 interacts: 13Pass out the barfis. It could be a hockey match. A Tendulkar century. A riot or a nuclear blast.
India tests three nuclear devices
Chowk P Room May 11, 1998 interacts: 30Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced that India had conducted three underground nuclear tests on Monday.
