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A goal they cannot disrupt

Saturday 19 September '09

Autonomy as the writers portray....
We must have no price...

Friday 18 September '09

...and everyone must know that we have no price....
Turning a deaf ear

Thursday 17 September '09

As usual, Gandhiji’s rules, sprinkled throughout his writings, speeches, letters, are an excellent guide, even though for us pygmies...
A few lessons

Wednesday 16 September '09

“Arun Shourie has attacked the Chief Minister, A.R. Antulay because the latter has opposed America’s decision to give arms...
Master strategies

Thursday 27 August '09

Here we are breaking each other’s heads over Partition when the man who presided over it has already assumed responsibility for so much that happened.
The ban and the law

Wednesday 26 August '09

The book denigrates the Sardar,” said a spokesman of the Gujarat government on the first day, giving the reason for banning Jaswant Singh’s book...
A few extracts from the book

Tuesday 25 August '09

Now, it so happens that I profoundly disagree with Mr. Jaswant Singh’s assessment of Jinnah. Ever since I read the multi-volume Jinnah Papers...
“Either diplomacy or war”

Thursday 13 August '09

“Trust but verify,” the Prime Minister says, invoking Ronald Reagan. Of course, Reagan did not just stop at enunciating a maxim....
Ring out the old, ring in the new

Friday 17 July '09

As the circle narrows, animosities within it become sharper. Rivalries become more intense: for now, all that each has to do is to do two or three in, and he has the top job.
How the party withers away

Thursday 16 July '09

Surrounded by scheming courtiers, leaders lose touch with reality and the movement’s founding beliefs
The end of ideology

Wednesday 15 July '09

How, by slow degrees, parties and leaders fall prey to vested interests....
On the way down

Tuesday 14 July '09

Four instances, two questions. •Indira Gandhi is able to block the implementation of the Allahabad High Court....
There’s more to life than GDP

Friday 3 July '09

In many spheres, technologies that can affect major savings are already at hand. The Integrated Energy Policy...
Changing course on climate

Thursday 2 July '09

The official position that has been articulated on behalf of India at various international fora is built around the....
Sweet-talking the nation

Wednesday 17 June '09

Arun Shourie talks back to the UPA agenda outlined in the president’s address. Excerpts:
New beginnings?

Monday 15 June '09

Of course, I would have liked the election results to have been the other way round. But, of the remaining alternatives, what the electorate has handed down is the best one.
When the danger is imminent, loud and clear, our voice must be insistent, loud and clear

Tuesday 26 May '09

Arun Shourie delivered a memorial lecture at the The United Services Institute in honour of their former Director, Maj. General Samir Sinha.
Bringing India’s money back to Indian shores

Tuesday 21 April '09

On the tax havens issue, the Congress is caught in its own web
Facing down the neighbourhood bully

Tuesday 7 April '09

India must resist weak rationalisations of China’s action in Tibet
Digging our head deeper in the sand

Tuesday 7 April '09

India ignores the Tibet situation and China’s widening influence at the borders to its own peril.
Responding to the Economic Meltdown

Thursday 19 March '09

Several features about the current economic crisis stand out. The first, of course, is the sheer scale of what preceded it, and the magnitude of what has happened in its wake...
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

Wednesday 4 March '09

With irresponsible spending and fantastical accounting, the government’s word now means nothing
Paper promises and alibis

Tuesday 3 March '09

Subsidies need to be sharply targeted, Chidambaram said — a euphemism for saying that they were not reaching the intended beneficiaries. Hence, he took a decisive step: he announced another study of them
Half truths and whole lies

Saturday 28 February '09

A point-by-point expose of the government’s shifty economic logic
The wages of dereliction

Friday 27 February '09

This government has used the global economic crisis to cover up its own mismanagement
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