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Ashok Malik
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The revival of a university in Nalanda is a noble mission. But the past seven years have seen a hijacking of the project by a small clique.
Tue, Feb 24, 2015
Detox as dharmaSubscriber Only
December 30,2005 00:00:00 AM
What was the big story from the BJP’s silver jubilee conclave in Mumbai? On the face of it, there were two contenders — the sex sc...
Fri, Dec 30, 2005He brought colour, lights to cricketSubscriber Only
December 28,2005 02:26:41 AM
There is a certain poignancy to Kerry Packer’s death, coming only weeks before the Indian team embarks on a tour of Pakistan. After all...
Wed, Dec 28, 2005Goodbye to ground zeroSubscriber Only
December 07,2005 00:00:00 AM
Many years ago, a friend and mentor introduced me to an old Chinese proverb: when the finger points to the moon, the idiot points to the fin...
Wed, Dec 07, 2005Back in the pictureSubscriber Only
November 23,2005 00:00:00 AM
Two days before the Bihar assembly election results, Nitish Kumar was at a dinner in Delhi, still answering questions from doubting Thomases...
Wed, Nov 23, 2005‘Andy told me he wanted to bring London’s Masefield to Iraq’Subscriber Only
November 17,2005 02:14:31 AM
A ‘‘third man’’ and perhaps a London-based ‘‘fourth man’’ too—the K. Natwar Singh-Volcker Commi...
Thu, Nov 17, 2005Natwar, Iraq and a hard placeSubscriber Only
November 10,2005 00:00:00 AM
On the evening of Sunday, November 6, having re-written post-Cold War history and, allegedly, told the prime minister that his removal from ...
Thu, Nov 10, 2005Minister without portfolio: past, futureSubscriber Only
November 08,2005 02:03:33 AM
K. Natwar Singh, as minister without portfolio, has distinguished predecessors.In 1964, when Jawaharlal Nehru fell ill, Lal Bahadur Shastri ...
Tue, Nov 08, 2005Congress’s oil stain has American shadowSubscriber Only
November 05,2005 01:58:05 AM
Other than a mention in the Volcker Committee report, what links K. Natwar Singh and Marc Rich, America’s biggest white collar criminal...
Sat, Nov 05, 2005The disaster dividendSubscriber Only
October 31,2005 00:00:00 AM
Right after the October 8 earthquake in Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), the diplomatic discourse seemed to have been ...
Mon, Oct 31, 2005Kashmir politician had an old Saddam linkSubscriber Only
October 30,2005 02:29:33 AM
Named in the Volcker Committee as a ‘‘non-contractual’’ beneficiary under the oil for food programme, Panthers Party pre...
Sun, Oct 30, 2005The Spy We LovedSubscriber Only
October 30,2005 00:00:00 AM
IN the mirth and naivete of youth, many afternoons are spent debating the relative merits and demerits of the movie stars who’ve played...
Sun, Oct 30, 2005Phantom of the operaSubscriber Only
October 22,2005 00:00:00 AM
Writing in the October 9 issue of People’s Democracy, CPI(M) politburo member Anil Biswas claimed, ‘‘The spectre of communism...
Sat, Oct 22, 2005Comintern to MominternSubscriber Only
September 30,2005 00:00:00 AM
In the months and years after 9/11, it has been conventional wisdom to blame the United States for planet Earth’s jihadi mess. As such,...
Fri, Sep 30, 2005‘CIA funded Cong against Left in Kerala, Bengal’Subscriber Only
September 20,2005 03:07:37 AM
Reacting to The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World, former West Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu told The Indian Express yesterday,...
Tue, Sep 20, 2005‘KGB penetrated IB to fund CPI, routed money to its members and mouthpiece’Subscriber Only
September 19,2005 01:37:36 AM
Was Promode Dasgupta an Intelligence Bureau (IB) informant in the Indian Communist movement? Certainly the KGB believed so, says The Mitrokh...
Mon, Sep 19, 2005‘KGB paid Congress, CPI, media’Subscriber Only
September 18,2005 01:56:02 AM
One year after he died, the ghost of Vasili Mitrokhin, former senior archivist at the KGB, has returned to haunt the core of the UPA—th...
Sun, Sep 18, 2005Vanishing MomentsSubscriber Only
September 04,2005 00:00:00 AM
FOR three decades till Indira Gandhi’s death on the last Wednesday afternoon of October 1984, Usha Bhagat was Mrs G’s secretary, c...
Sun, Sep 04, 2005Mutiny’s bountySubscriber Only
August 25,2005 00:00:00 AM
Each time an Indian film-maker attempts to recreate the past, the resident bore stands up and yelps, ‘‘But this is not history....
Thu, Aug 25, 2005Red, red whineSubscriber Only
August 23,2005 00:00:00 AM
This past Sunday, a former Indian cricket captain wrote a newspaper column on the Ashes series. As it happened, the first half of his articl...
Tue, Aug 23, 2005Delhi’s Kolkata CommunistsSubscriber Only
July 31,2005 00:00:00 AM
BY the end of the week, it was easy to miss them in the swirl of the Mumbai deluge, and the terrorists from Jaunpur to Lal Chowk. Yet rest a...
Sun, Jul 31, 2005Trivia PursuitSubscriber Only
July 24,2005 00:00:00 AM
THE quintessential cricket fan—as opposed to the face-paint fiend whose idea of fun is wild shrieks of ‘‘Sixer! Sixer!’&...
Sun, Jul 24, 2005American idolSubscriber Only
July 21,2005 00:00:00 AM
It must be a good month for ironies. George W. Bush and Manmohan Singh both came into office dismissed as lightweights who paled before thei...
Thu, Jul 21, 2005New book says Mao-USSR deal on IndiaSubscriber Only
July 12,2005 00:00:00 AM
In a season when Cold War secrets are tumbling out with astonishing regularity, a new book has just revealed details of a Beijing-Moscow dea...
Tue, Jul 12, 2005Salute the BulldogSubscriber Only
July 09,2005 00:00:00 AM
Each time they face a terrorist strike, Indians instinctively ask: why doesn’t the West take such violence against us seriously? The an...
Sat, Jul 09, 2005Journalism of Courage
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