In supporting Nitish Kumar, the BJP patriarch has hurt his own party Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s exit from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), swiftly followed by ex-convener Sharad Yadav’s ‘offer’ to return if ‘the party’ is headed by LK Advani, is a Freudian admission of the deep links between … Read More
Something is wrong with the way the world is handling gold and lesser mortals like us shall probably never make sense of it. Still, given its eternal significance, some of the activity and thinking around gold merits our attention. For centuries, international trade ran on the basis of the gold … Read More
The patriarch, in his last lap, seeks to destroy Narendra Modi Disgruntled BJP leader LK Advani has surprised friends and foes alike by the rapidity with which he has launched his last political yatra – scuttle Narendra Modi’s ‘campaign Red Fort’. Unless checked firmly, this will happen even at the … Read More
If the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hopes to have a chance to win in the next General Elections under the leadership of Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh, it must dissolve the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) without further ado. The party’s traditional allies like the Akali Dal and the Shiv Sena … Read More
Former BJP president LK Advani is set to remain as a millstone round the neck of the party, with the freedom to pursue, to the extent possible, his new mission to derail the growing eminence of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Although Advani failed to reverse Modi’s elevation as the … Read More
One impact of the Gujarat Chief Minister’s elevation as the Bharatiya Janata Party’s campaign committee chief will be the quiet retreat of the Amethi MP as his main challenger; the Congress president will be forced to lead the electoral battle in 2014 and search for a new surrogate-PM should the … Read More
Now that the juvenile accused in the December 16, 2012, gang-rape in Delhi has officially come of age (June 4, 2013), it may be pertinent to examine if it was always open to the authorities to try him as an adult in the crime. If so, the logical corollary would … Read More
The Central Information Commission (CIC) on Monday, June 3, 2013, stunned the entire political spectrum by extending the ambit of the Right to Information (RTI) Act to cover six major political parties, namely the Congress, BJP, NCP, CPI-M, CPI and BSP. The Congress which dominates the UPA coalition at the … Read More
Amidst confusing, even contradictory, reports coming out of Syria, it is clear that the world is poised on the brink of a greater conflagration than previously envisioned – a regional war distinct from the US-NATO action in Iraq and Libya, with wider ramifications. Major world capitals have decided their stand … Read More
But the problem of corruption in cricket lies elsewhere Legalizing betting in cricket, the standard panacea each time a scandal erupts over match-fixing, and currently spot-fixing, fails to address the central malady of corruption in the game. Instead of suggesting ways to curb the stinking malfeasance, the ‘legalise betting’ lobby … Read More
