P.V. Narasimha Rao was the first serving prime minister I got to meet one-on-one in my reporting days and I...
Category: National Interest
Clarity begins at home
Having questioned, criticised and even ridiculed them all this while, you now have to begin sympathising with the Left. While...
Parliament Lament
One of the most abiding stories from my reporting years is Nawaz Sharif asking me, in complete, child-like innocence, how...
A Bharatiya Janata Pity
If there is one area of governance history would give the NDA good marks for, it is foreign policy. The...
Borderline Headline
Isn’t it funny, and happily so, how much economics dominates our political thought processes these days compared to, say, a...
Playing With Water – No, Fire
The SYL mess matches the Rubaiya disaster in its scale of govt incompetence. And in its unmasking of a political...
UPA needs an MBA (Coalition)
Sonia Gandhi has probably not forgotten her favourite line on the NDA. This government, she used to say, will fall...
It’s the Broker AND the Farmer
In the scorchingly volatile evolution of the post-election politico-economic debate, a fascinating new question has emerged, particularly after the market...
PM as Political Manmohan
Prime minister Manmohan Singh unflinchingly makes two confessions to those calling on him since he took up the top job....
A Hotline to Burkina Faso
From the CMP to the president’s address and now to the prime minister’s first address to the nation you see...