heavy instruments on their head in front of Hotel Russia. There are better means available (in a European state) for transport of packages and goods. This is an eye-witness account that we picked up...
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Election Wars, Mini, Midi, Maxi In all probability the opposition will not capture power in 1989. But it can and must snatch away at least two Hindi belt states from the loosening jaws of the ruling...
The Dagger of the Mind Later rather than sooner the nation will realise that the 'dagger of the mind' will find no solution to the Punjab crisis. The only solution that can and must work in a...
moment as very much a part of the establishment on this side. He belongs, the west European right, along with their peers across the Atlantic, have almost come to cultivate a fraternal feeling...
Rajiv Gandhi and His Forty Horses Bhabani Sen Gupta It is not easy to govern India any wore without radical programmes of structural reforms, of which the Congress Party, by its very social...
Crisis of the Indian State Bhabani Sen Gupta There are symptoms of a crisis of a real generational change in the political process: the passing of the hegemony of the Congress Party But this is in...
Pressure Cooking in Punjab Bhabani Sen Gupta If the prime minister's 'total plan' for Punjab has at last begun to unfold, is it a combination of a very long spell of presidential rule, dissolution...
Budget as a Political Statement Bhabani Sen Gupta As a political document, the union budget for 1988-89 has two central messages. First, the ruling party is making a determined effort to gain back...
Opinion polls may show the prime minister to be popular with the majority of the electorate, but the image is at best fragile and Rajiv Gandhi is unlikely to gamble his and his party's political...
Building a National Alternative Bhabani Sen Gupta In a fairly large number of states the electorate has found credible alternatives to the Congress(I). The opposition regimes are not deviant...
Never have central ministers been so uncertain of their portfolios as in the last three years, never have ministries or departments been under so rapidly shifting leaderships. This has damaged not...
'Socialism's' Ebb and Flow Bhabani Sen Gupta As the Chinese are building socialism with Chinse characteristics, so is India building capitalism with Indian characteristics. If you insist on calling...
We have left behind a time when a political crony coined the crude acme of sycophancy: 'Indira is India'. But we still have a prime minister who can roar that he will 'dismiss' a state government if...
In Sri Lanka everybody is waiting, what for nobody is clear. The killings go on in the north and the east and with each day, much to the sardonic delight of the Sinhalese gentry, the IPKF finds...
The Fourth Year At the beginning of his fourth year as prime minister, much of the Rajiv Gandhi who had rainbowed the imagination of the 80 million Indians who can buy consumer durables has faded...
