July 24, 2009 22:40 IST
On the face of it,bank nationalisation and abolition of privy purses as well as other privileges of princes would appear to be Siamese twins...
Fri, Jul 24, 2009July 10, 2009 00:27 IST
Three years after the tsunami of criticism over the devaluation of the rupee had driven Indira Gandhi to a policy switch,from pragmatic to populist...
Fri, Jul 10, 2009June 26, 2009 03:39 IST
Americans of a certain age still remember what they were doing when John F. Kennedy was shot dead.
Fri, Jun 26, 2009June 12, 2009 00:53 IST
Stealth and secrecy surrounded Indira Gandhis decision to devalue the currency
Fri, Jun 12, 2009May 29, 2009 23:11 IST
On the day Jawaharlal Nehru passed into history 45 years and two days ago,I was in Pakistan along with some others of the Indian hack pack.
Fri, May 29, 2009May 15, 2009 00:23 IST
The story behind Indira Gandhis Pokhran-I decision
Fri, May 15, 2009May 01, 2009 00:03 IST
Nehru nearly staked his government,and Ambedkar resigned over the Hindu Code Bill
Fri, May 01, 2009April 17, 2009 00:28 IST
For Jawaharlal Nehru the road to the first general elections,on which he was very keen...
Fri, Apr 17, 2009April 12, 2009 15:59 IST
The story of a man who combined the roles of a modern politician and a maharaja
Sun, Apr 12, 2009April 03, 2009 17:15 IST
It is impossible fully to comprehend the significant ramifications of the great and successful gamble of Indias first general election...
Fri, Apr 03, 2009March 20, 2009 00:07 IST
Now that the election fever is mounting by the minute and political parties are enlivening the scene by breaking up old marriages...
Fri, Mar 20, 2009March 06, 2009 00:36 IST
How time flies! In four days it would be fifty years since the famous Tibetan revolt that forced the Dalai Lama to flee to India...
Fri, Mar 06, 2009February 20, 2009 00:37 IST
Those who lived through the brief but brutal border war with China in the high Himalayas in 1962 still remember the trauma it caused.
Fri, Feb 20, 2009February 10, 2009 02:51 IST
Khalid Hasan,who died last week in Washington,where he was the special correspondent of Lahores Daily Times and Friday Times....
Tue, Feb 10, 2009February 06, 2009 03:16 IST
The PMs heart surgery was an open matter but it wasnt always so with heads of state
Fri, Feb 06, 2009
February 01, 2009 16:13 IST
The Kashmir crisis was more complex than is made out to be by a timely new biography of Sheikh Abdullah
Sun, Feb 01, 2009January 23, 2009 00:44 IST
Indira Gandhis elevation to premiership was surrounded by intrigue
Fri, Jan 23, 2009January 09, 2009 01:08 IST
When India and Pakistan thrashed their issues out in Tashkent
Fri, Jan 09, 2009
November 28, 2006 00:23 IST
Litvinenko’s personality is a factor to be considered. Who were the people he was consorting with? And for what purpose?
Tue, Nov 28, 2006
March 02, 2006 00:00 IST
Come to think of it, George W. Bush is only the fifth United States president to travel to India over 58 years since independence, which is ...
Thu, Mar 02, 2006
January 11, 2006 00:00 IST
What the current furore over the alleged tapping of the Reliance phone of the Samajwadi leader, Amar Singh, might ultimately reveal is far f...
Wed, Jan 11, 2006
October 06, 2005 00:00 IST
Last week’s unnecessary and rather perverse day-long disruption in large parts of the country continues to be the subject of bitter com...
Thu, Oct 06, 2005

