DO you know that at the turn of our century 130 crore women and men live below the poverty line while assets of the richest 200, already fabulous in '95,
The new year began on an ominous note for the BJP. Everything seems to be going wrong for them since then. The deal with the hijackers was widely perceived as
SIX characters in search of a play-wright. This is the title of a celebrated play by a famous European playwright. In a lighter vein one could perhaps similarly describe the
THE MAY 11 Bharat Bandh will go down as a major milestone in the series of popular struggles against saffron fascists in the first year of the new millennium. Coming
It was none other than L.K. Advani who originally propounded the theory of India being a soft state which needed to be hardened into an effective state. Within months, this
In the 'world's largest democracy', it is often the so-called institutions of democracy, including its watchdogs as well as enforcing agencies, which nibble away at the feeble democracy. Spineless to
It is no longer a secret that the decade of new economic policy has led to an alarming accentuation of regional disparity in this country. The reason is also not
Some newspaper editorials have argued that Vajpayee's US visit should be assessed more for its symbolism than substance. Be that as it may, winning a nod of approval from the
AS. WE write these lines, the much-awaited CPI(M) plenum is on in Tiruananthpuram. As plenums go, this is probably the third all-India plenum in the CPI(M)'s history of thirty-six years.
EVEN AS THE US was awaiting the denouement of the 'Kaun Banega Rashtrapati' drama, India played host to another president who came calling on a ten-day trip : President Wolfensohn
