Arjun Singh, Rajiv Gandhi’s most trusted political lieutenant, is too layered and fascinating a political figure to describe in one article. But of his more interesting personality aspects is how seriously he took the media.
The peace accords Rajiv Gandhi signed in Punjab, Assam and Mizoram show his willingness to go beyond the party line and underlines the refreshing new change he brought to our politics.
Brilliance of the idea of National Security Guard lay in the fact that you could use might & resources of armed forces in an internal situation without exposing the Army as an institution.
The great foreign policy challenge for India at this moment is to finally dump the old mindset of a lobbying nation and celebrate its new status as a buying power.
In the Sri Lankan civil war what coloured our judgment was not ethnic affections but the compulsions of Tamil Nadu politics. This was Rajiv Gandhi's great blunder.
Going through their Instagrams and dissecting their ‘statements’ is not the astute political commentary you think it is—it is time for us to back off from targeting 20-year-olds.
Companies are borrowing more from banks and public. Economists say high capacity utilisation & growing new orders could set stage for renewed investment push by India Inc.
New Delhi has, in past, too, objected to Chinese construction activities in Shaksgam Valley. Work in this strategic region gathered pace after the 2017 Doklam stand-off.
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.
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