Theatrics isn’t leadership
As many Indians expected, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has succeeded in scuttling an odious ordinance which would have enabled lawmakers sentenced to jail for two years or more to hold…
India’s self-seeking missiles
Yet again, India has been struggling to become a mere non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC). The country aspires to join the Big 5 as a nuclear equal,…
Indian general plays with fire
Indians justifiably take pride in the robust durability of their country’s democracy, barring the Emergency (1975-77), and the relatively apolitical nature of its armed forces. Unlike in many third world…
Decline of the Nehruvian
The spectre of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister and one of the three founders of the Non-Alignment Movement along with Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia and Gamal Abdel…
Militarism and democracy
Peace activists opposed to the nuclear weapons tests and other aggressive announcements by India last week should take heart from the truth that in democracies jingoism doesn`t always reward its…
Shaping of a nightmare
In his short innings as foreign minister in the Janata Party experiment of 1977-79, Atal Behari Vajpayee drove down to the L3 lecture hall at Jawaharlal Nehru University. The predominantly…
The murder of Ishrat Jahan
India's Central Bureau of Investigation has charged eight Gujarat policemen, including senior officers DG Vanzara and PP Pandey, with premeditated murder for the 2004 'encounter' killing of teenager-student Ishrat Jahan…
The speaker & democracy
“Confidence in the impartiality of the speaker is an indispensable condition for the successful working of the procedure, and many conventions exist which have as their object not only to…
India deserves better
Otto von Bismarck described politics as the art of the possible. After months of breathless anticipation and speculation, the BJP has finally thrown its lot behind Narendra Modi, opening the…
China in Balochistan: Election Outlook-XXI
Seen from Pakistan's perspective, China's presence in Balochistan could be a game-changer or a newly introduced element that changes the existing situation in a highly significant way. Not only does…
