Anand K. Sahay
Cong strategy: Ensure Hazare gets into clinic
The crux of the government’s strategy is to ensure that fasting anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare’s deteriorating health does not reach a tipping point, and cause public mayhem with the potential of a blowback for the ruling Congress at election time.
Mumbai’s history awaits a touch of Bollywood velvet
These days desperate people still go to Mumbai to find work.
Antony to chair Sonia’s 4-member group
The four-member panel to run Congress affairs in the absence of party president Sonia Gandhi is to be chaired by defence minister A.K. Antony, it is understood. As a member of this steering group, the Nehru-Gandhi scion Rahul Gandhi, a party general secretary, will be required to formally defer to Mr Antony in protocol terms.
Crisis may impact K’taka BJP adversely
The recent political developments in Karnataka underline a feature and a possibility. These are likely to negatively impact the BJP’s hold on the state.
Fai goes back a long way with Jamaat in Kashmir
Ghulam Nabi Fai, the Indian Kashmiri who became an American citizen and ran a covert propaganda ring for Pakistan’s ISI out of Washington before his arrest by America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation
Fai, Jamaat’s secret winter of ’90
Ghulam Nabi Fai, the Indian Kashmiri who became an American citizen and ran a covert propaganda ring for Pakistan’s ISI out of Washington before his arrest by America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation four days ago, was a man of some standing in Jamaat-e-Islami circles in Kashmir, although he successfully concealed this in the United States.
DC Debate on Lokpal: Enforce laws, don't need another thicket of legislation
It is hard to find anyone in the country who does not believe that corruption is not hitting us in the gut.
Some like Justice J.S. Narang, formerly of the Punjab and Haryana high court, however wond
‘Solution in enforcing laws, not new bodies’
It is hard to find anyone in the country who does not believe that corruption is not hitting us in the gut. Some like Justice J.S. Narang, formerly of the Punjab and Haryana high court, however wonder just how many institutions would we go on creating to deal with a malady.
DC Debate: Government answerable to people
The Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI), of which Mohan Dharia is chairman, has said in a note to the government that ‘the time has come for the political wing of society to state categoricall
Beware of some in civil society: NGO
The Confederation of NGOs of Rural India (CNRI), of which Mr Mohan Dharia is chairman, has said in a note to the government that “the time has come for the political wing of society to state categorically and unambiguously that they are answerable to the people through Parliament and state legislatures”. Else, the day may not be far when
