In our so called democracy, it does not matter how many votes you have got but what matters is how many seats you have got by hook or crook. In nutshell this is the outcome in the 2009 Andhra Pradesh elections.
The Congress party is lucky, (...)
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August 2009
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Andhra Pradesh Elections 2009: Some Reflections
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The Sharm el-Sheikh Sell-out
16 August 2009, by Sunita VakilThe monumental blunder committed by India at Sharm-el-Sheikh is likely to weigh it down in all future Indo-Pak negotiations.
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed,” says Ibsen. Notwithstanding the fact that Islamabad (...) -
How we Smashed a Jewel
16 August 2009, by T J S GeorgeWhat a pathetic plight Air-India has reached. It’s become the first government-owned company that is unable to pay salaries. The unions blame the government and insist on their privileges. Which means the irresistible force of business economics (...) -
Can Money Compensate for Rape?
16 August 2009, by Vasudha DhagamwarThe recent battle between Mayawati and Rita Bahuguna Joshi seems to be over and one hopes permanently. However, it does raise a very basic question: is money the right compensation for rape? Can the victim’s feelings be assuaged by giving her (...) -
Communists and ‘Quit India’ Struggle
16 August 2009, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThis was the week, fiftytwo years ago, that marked the parting of ways between the Communists and the Congress. It was the Communist opposition to the ‘Quit India’ resolution at the historic AICC session in August 1942 that ultimately led to the (...) -
Murder of Judicial Trial
16 August 2009, by Sushil VakilThe latest U-turn by Pakistan on sentencing the perpetrators of the Mumbai attack is indeed an important wake-up call for India. The way the Pakistani judiciary is handling the trial gives ample proof that judges are not applying their judicial (...) -
Will RSS see the Ground Reality and join to Salve India‘s Core Values?
16 August 2009, by Sailendra Nath GhoshOf late, the RSS has been accusing the BJP of inconsistency and also of failure to convey the real meaning of Hindutva. The BJP has certainly been inconsistent. It has been in two minds because like the Congress, it, too, is preoccupied, not (...) -
How the PM fared in Parliament
5 August 2009, by SCJust a week ago it was written in these columns that while one cannot deny the turmoil the India-Pakistan Joint Statement following the meeting between the two PMs, Manmohan Singh and Yusuf Raza Gilani, on the sidelines of the 15th NAM Summit in (...) -
NAM: Abiding Relevance
5 August 2009, by CharvakThe 15th NAM Summit concluded at Sharm el-Sheikh on July 16 with a five-page Declaration that, while agreeing to engage constructively with “concrete actions” of the nuclear weapon states towards disarmament as also the recent positive (...) -
Xinjiang: China’s Palestine
5 August 2009, by S.K. DuttaThe recent violence in Xinjiang or former East Turkmenistan, which has left more than 150 dead, is just the tip of the iceberg as to what is happening inside China. China is a country which survives under the iron curtain where the press and (...)