(Text of the speech delivered at the funeral of Nagbhushan Patnaik in Bhuvaneshwar.)
OVER the last fifteen years or so, myself and Comrade Nagbhushan have been co-participants in many a conference
Six months ago, the BJP used to project itself as a party with a difference. It used to plead with the electorate to give it a single chance to govern.
(16-17 December, Lucknow; 23-24 December, Patna)
The meeting of the Central Committee which began in Lucknow on December 16, 1998 will be remembered in our Party history as a great tragedy.
Defying all democratic opposition and liberal counsel, Bihar has eventually been placed under President's rule. PR in Bihar is de facto BJP rule, and it is directed not just against
AFTER thirteen months of saffron misrule, the twelfth Lok Sabha finally stands dissolved. The stage is now all set for the next battle of ballots.
As for our Party, we were
With only three months to go for the Lok Sabha elections, political temperature in the country should have started rising by now. In fact soon after the dissolution of the
Usually victors are not supposed to be wary of talks with their vanquished opponents. If Indian claims of victory in Kargil — both diplomatic and military — are true, then
The Independence Day speech of Atal Bihari Vajpayee sounded like a renewed war cry — “We'll deploy Agni-II”. Seen in the backdrop of rising temperatures between the two hostile neighbours
General Pervez Musharraf has snuffed out democracy in Pakistan as easily as blowing out a candle. Under Mr. Nawaz Sharif's 'democratic' rule, editors were jailed, opposition leaders were hounded out
THE US Congress passed an unusual resolution on November 18, 1999 calling for 'strategic partnership' with India by an overwhelming majority of 396 to 4. This clearly bi-partisan endorsement of