Discerning readers following the current controversy over the Indian Council of Historical Research’s decision to submit two volumes of the Towards Freedom series for review can be forgiven for thinking that it seems like much ado about nothing. They may wonder why camp followers and intellectuals of the Left have … Read More
Like the ghost of Hamlet’s father, the Spirit of the Indian Constitution must have walked on the night President KR Narayanan delivered his unprovoked warning to the National Democratic Alliance Government against appointing a Committee to review that august document’s five-decade performance. Speaking at a function to commemorate the 50th … Read More
There can be no denying that recent disclosures of CBI investigations into the Bofors payoff scandal are extremely damaging to the late Rajiv Gandhi. In fact, these will reinforce the belief that his wife, Ms Sonia Gandhi, tailored her debut into Indian politics precisely to prevent this painful public denouement. … Read More
