It will be a highly premature and harsh judgment to say that in acting against Mr. Charan Singh and Mr. Raj Narain the Prime Minister and the Union cabinet have taken a step which may help salvage the Janata government and party. But this may well turn out to be … Read More
The United States appears to have suddenly shifted its policy towards Angola. While so far it had held Angola guilty of involvement in the recent attack on Zaire’s Shaba province by Katangese rebels, it has now acknowledged that on its part President Mobutu’s government, too, has encouraged and supported armed … Read More
From time to time there have been reports in Western newspapers to the effect that relations between the Soviet Union and Iraq had begun to cool off. More recently the same sources have said that the ruling Baathists in Baghdad had fallen out with the communists and had tried and … Read More
In asking Mr. Raj Narain to explain his recent criticism of Mr. Chandra Shekhar, the Janata parliamentary board has, on the face of it, ignored Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan’s appeal to it to try and defuse the crisis in the party. Indeed, one of the general secretaries, Mr. Rabi Ray, has … Read More
Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan has reason to be specially perturbed over the increasingly bitter factional struggles in the Janata. Unless one takes a rather cynical, though not a wholly unjustified, view that the party is a product of the emergency, he more than any other single individual must be recognised as … Read More
The central committee of the CPM is quite justified in taking the view that the earlier criticism of the emergency and Mrs. Gandhi by the CPI is “now muted”. But that is only a harsh way of saying that, unlike it, the CPI has not settled for Mrs Gandhi being … Read More
It will be idle for anyone in this country to pretend that the formal inauguration of the 800-km all-weather Karakoram road along with the old silk route does not represent a new high in Sino-Pakistani friendship. It clearly does. However limited the use of the road for trade and military … Read More
The Prime Minister’s statement in Washington last Thursday on the question of the Sino-Indian border dispute can leave no room for the speculation that New Delhi under the present dispensation is prepared to make “concessions” to Peking. “Why should I make a concession? They should do it. They are a … Read More
The Prime Minister can claim some credit for the US House International Relations Committee’s decision to approve the administration’s move to supply 7.6 tonnes of enriched uranium to this country for Tarapur, some because it is by no means certain that the committee would in the final analysis have acted … Read More
It is difficult to think of any Indian other than Sisir Gupta who spanned the three worlds of academics, journalism and diplomacy with equal aplomb. The only other name that comes to mind is that of Mr. M.C. Chagla. But though he has had an even more variegated career as … Read More
