Mr. Rahul Gandhi has got it right. Political parties cannot be personality centric. Political parties must have a structure, an ideology and inner party democracy. They cannot be…
‘Operation Blue Star’ in June 1984 will remain one of the most controversial acts of the Government in independent India. In order to marginalize the moderate Akalis, a…
I have in the past few weeks made two comments which I wish to refer to. Firstly, that the Congress has lost the will to effectively fight the…
Governance involves policy formulation and its implementation. Policies have to be sound, based on established principles and implemented in a transparent and honest manner. Getting positive publicity for…
The founding fathers of our Constitution envisaged the Directive Principles of State Policy in Part IV of the Constitution. Article 44 of the Constitution states “The state shall…
The results of the State Assembly elections were declared over a month ago. There is a significant shift in the agenda of national politics since then. Prior to…
On the eve of the Prime Minister’s Press Conference I had posed five questions that I would have liked to ask the Prime Minister. My first question was…
India has an inherent interest in the stability of its neighbourhood. A disturbed neighbourhood adversely affects India. In some cases the consequences of a disturbed neighbourhood spill into…
I was invited on January 4, 2014 to Pune for the launch of the Marathi edition of the book ‘Modinama” written by Madhu Purnima Kishwar, an academic and…
A senior leader of the Aam Aadmi Party has suggested that the issue of army presence in the Kashmir valley may be decided by a referendum of the…