COVER STORY
Briefing
Vajpayee again
The Bharatiya Janata Party gets power in New Delhi again, this time along with almost two dozen allies. And there is not a cloud of instability ...
A challenging assignment
THE elections to the 13th Lok Sabha witnessed a massive exercise in mobilising human and material resources and were a stern test of the ...
Fractured mandate in Maharashtra
DESPITE the reverses it suffered in the State in the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress(I) has emerged as the single largest party in the ...
Silent shift
THE Congress(I) made a spectacular come-back to power in Karnataka, winning over substantial sections of its traditional vote base which ...
Silent shift
THE Congress(I) made a spectacular come-back to power in Karnataka, winning over substantial sections of its traditional vote base which ...
A clear majority for TDP
BEATING back a spirited Congress(I) challenge, N. Chandrababu Naidu steered the Telugu Desam Party-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance to a ...
Dual victory for SDF
THE Sikkim Demo-cratic Front (SDF) was swept back to power in the Himalayan State with a two-thirds majority in the 32-member Assembly.
Congress(I) sweep
IN a landslide victory, the ruling Congress(I) won the two Lok Sabha seats and 53 seats in the 60-member Legislative Assembly in ...
Tasks of transformation
The centrality of race in the South African system and society remains even under democratic rule, and a real change on this front will ...
From South Africa, with feeling
R. KRISHNAKUMAR in Thiruvananthapuram SEATED under a life-size painting of Mahatma Gandhi in the Durbar Hall of the State Secretariat in ...
Reforms as ideology
India in the Era of Economic Reformsedited by Jeffrey D. Sachs, Ashutosh Varshney and Nirupam Bajpai; Oxford University Press, New ...
'Empower gram panchayats'
Interview with Arthur Bonner, author and journalist. Seventy-six-year-old Arthur Sebastian Bonner, who has spent much of his life writing ...
Double-talk on subsidies
The case of agricultural subsidies in global trade negotiations. ONE of the paradoxes of world trade is that the richest and the ...
AIDS and some concerns
As international agencies pour in funds for AIDS programmes in India, doubts are raised in some quarters about the priorities.
A complex case
THE Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a complex one which rapidly changes its structure. This is a reason why it has been difficult ...
One more upturn?
If at all there has been a turnaround in the economy, it is not because of the successful implementation of the reform programme but because of ...
Stifling dissent and debate
Under attack from NGOs for its communal orientation, the BJP seeks to browbeat them and also impose indirect forms of censorship.
The meaning of George Fernandes
A critique of the man and the Minister. A COLLEAGUE in his Samata Party, Jaya Jaitley, said before the votes were counted, that ...
Polluted Palar
"Along the polluted Palar" (October 8, 1999) rightly stated that apart from highly toxic effluents, tanneries generate sludge, which also ...
Standing up for a right
Organisations representing the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes have chalked out a programme of agitation aimed at protecting their ...
A clear majority for TDP
BEATING back a spirited Congress(I) challenge, N. Chandrababu Naidu steered the Telugu Desam Party-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance to a ...
Dual victory for SDF
THE Sikkim Demo-cratic Front (SDF) was swept back to power in the Himalayan State with a two-thirds majority in the 32-member Assembly.
Congress(I) sweep
IN a landslide victory, the ruling Congress(I) won the two Lok Sabha seats and 53 seats in the 60-member Legislative Assembly in ...
Consolidation in Uttar Pradesh
The results in Uttar Pradesh, where the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party fared exceedingly well, show that, contrary to speculation, ...
Pollsters proved wrong
Every time the media and political pundits predicted stunning reverses for the Samajwadi Party (S.P.) in elections in Uttar Pradesh, the ...
Managing to lose
The Congress(I) slumps to its worst-ever electoral performance, despite regional gains and an increase in its overall vote share. An analysis ...
Whose agenda?
Tasks before the new government. AS the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government in New Delhi settles down, attention should ...
Against secular NGOs
I am writing in response to an item which has appeared in several newspapers, including The Asian Age (Rezaul H. Laskar), regarding a series of ...