Monthly Archives: February 2003

A strange paradox seems to have benumbed the Bharatiya Janata Party even as it seeks to put a confident face forward in the forthcoming elections in Himachal Pradesh. The party had virtually conceded the State to the Congress until Mr. Narendra Modi’s mind-boggling victory forced it to recognize the burgeoning … Read More →

The two-day lightening strike by Government and private doctors in Bihar, following the abduction of orthopaedic surgeon Dr. Bharat Singh by suspected extortionists, is only the latest instance of lawlessness in the eastern badlands of India. The almost simultaneous arrest of a CPM activist in a scandal of alleged rape … Read More →