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Friday 5 June '09
Brown was to be the meltdown’s saviour. The expenses scandal changed all thatSunday
31 May '09There is now a chance to think calmly about the election. Let us forget the experts who say that nothing very much changed.Sunday
24 May '09I once met an LSE alumnus who had become a millionaire by restoring the fortunes of firms gone broke.Sunday
17 May '09No surprise then. Not for readers of this column. I am afraid I have to crow though with some humility. I had consistently said Congress....Sunday
10 May '09At Los Alamos, when the first atom bomb was tested, Robert Oppenheimer recited the verses from the Bhagavad Gita...Sunday
3 May '09When the shock of 26/11 took place, the first reactions were angry. A lot of Mumbai citizens expressed their dissatisfaction with the leaders....Sunday
26 April '09When Pandit Nehru was Congress leader, he won three elections in a row and thus he had two full terms where the same Party...Sunday
19 April '09The bell has sounded and the voters are voting. Now at last we can breathe a sigh of relief and think about wider issues. It is quite clear that politics....Sunday
12 April '09As E-Day approaches, Indian politics appears to be having a nervous breakdown.Sunday
29 March '09Dr. Manmohan Singh will be well advised to get his mind off the minutiae of electoral politics this week. Bigger things are at stake in London.....Sunday
22 March '09Varun Gandhi argues that his videotape was doctored. Maybe. But I did hear him live on TV when he asserted that he was a Hindu and belonged to a Hindu family.....Sunday
15 March '09It is difficult to keep away from the troubles of Pakistan. There is obviously a Pakistan that can write long replies to India’s chargesheet against the 26/11 accused.....Sunday
8 March '09What a lot of fuss about the few possessions of the Mahatma which went on sale in New York. His ideals are evoked but seldom followed.....Sunday
1 March '09I cannot resist crowing. Last September, I predicted on a TV programme that the GDP growth rate would be nearer five per cent than the seven plus the government was forecasting.Sunday
22 February '09Imran Khan has not been as lucky in his political life as he was in his cricket.Sunday
15 February '09Eighty days after 26/11, Pakistani authorities have responded to India’s dossierSunday
8 February '09It is hard to imagine that Barack Obama has not been President of the US forever.Sunday
1 February '09I celebrated the millennium’s arrival in a restaurant in Galle in Sri Lanka. An election had just taken place where I was an observer and that taught me a lot about politics in Sri Lanka....Sunday
25 January '09Perhaps the least noticed part of Obama’s inauguration was that Robert Gates, the only member of the Cabinet who was retained from the Bush administration...Sunday
18 January '09Life would be so much nicer if the whole world just agreed with India on everything.Sunday
11 January '09In its heyday in the early 1990s, there were fears that if the BJP ever came to power, it would never ever go away. Hitler-like, Vajpayee would take his mukhota off..Sunday
4 January '09The Congress-NCP Kashmir saga is beginning to look like Subhash Ghai’s Saudagar.Sunday
28 December '08Every now and then a politician comes up on the horizon who raises hopes that she or he will make a difference.Sunday
14 December '08Pakistan is the best excuse invented for India’s dysfunctional politics to avoid all challenges.
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