f Vajpayee is to be repudiated for defying political ideology, Narasimha Rao was made to pay for not kowtowing to his party’s first family. The Family is to Congress what Hindutva is to RSS.
Perhaps such is the bitterness at losing power, so powerful the need to live in denial, that BJP has begun to lose its balance at all levels, and, obviously in case of the Naqvi/Naidu types.
A government’s internal stability or strength does not always determine its ability to deal with the world, particularly on issues where there is broader consensus.
While we latch on to Vajpayee-the-ideal-PM aspect of the survey, we are missing out a very significant point: that power equations are changing so fast that a telecom moghul is at the top of the most powerful men list.
Facing a series of trade union protests, the choice for PM Vajpayee is clear — either go the Gujral/Gowda way by surrendering or the Maggie/Indira way & show some spunk.
The argument that funding a cultural or intellectual institution gives the govt every right to choose who runs it, how and what kind of ideas it produces, is a dangerous one.
For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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