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Friday, August 8, 2025
TopicAtal Bihari Vajpayee

Topic: Atal Bihari Vajpayee

A Bharatiya Janata Pity

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.

Mr Vajpayee’s high ground, Mrs Gandhi’s road ahead

The dramatic electoral verdict is as much about anti-incumbency as about the rising expectations of our voter.

Mera loot mahaan

Cooking of books so that promoters can siphon off large fortunes overseas is so common that we are no longer even outraged by it.

Reshuffling an empty deck

Vajpayee's cabinet reshuffle is not based on performance or track record but on balancing and assuaging egos and ambitions.

Doing the ‘Right’ thing

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.

Desi Punch, Italian Judy

Ask Chandrababu Naidu who gets nightmares over what might happen in the polls the next time round and you were to get closer to power at the Centre.

Asia’s power brats

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.

Your turn to strike, Mr Prime Minister

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.

State of sterile mind

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.

On Camera

US has misread India. New Delhi will hedge, push back, and assert

India’s foreign policy today is driven less by Western alignment or global liberalism and more by domestic political imperatives — economic, ideological, and electoral.

Smartphones, gems, pharma: Which Indian exports will be worst hit by Trump tariffs, which will be spared

Electronics—specifically smartphones—& energy & pharma products make up 30% of Indian exports to US. 25% tariff on India came into effect Thursday, extra 25% to kick in by August-end.

Pakistan army chief Asim Munir to attend CENTCOM chief’s farewell, second visit to US in two months

Munir was earlier in America in June when he had a two-hour luncheon meeting with the US president at the White House.

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.