It is only proper that Mr. Pranab Mukherjee should meet Congress (I) dissident leaders from Maharashtra on Mrs. Gandhi’s behalf and discuss the situation in the state with them. After all, they have a viewpoint which deserves to be heard. In any case, the stage is now past when Mrs. … Read More
The Reagan administration has suspended, if not withdrawn, its offer of nuclear cooperation with China. It is an extremely significant development even strictly in terms of bilateral relations. After the patch-up on the question of American arms supply to Taiwan and the obvious diminution of at least China’s public hostility … Read More
So the Congress (I) leadership has given Andhra a new chief minister – the fourth since the party was swept into office in New Delhi in January 1980. In this case, the Congress (I) leadership is not a euphemism for Mrs. Gandhi. She has shown no preference for any particular … Read More
So tragedy is piled upon tragedy in hapless Lebanon. The assassination of its President-elect, Mr. Bashir Gemayel, plunges the country in a new crisis even before it has had an opportunity to try to overcome an existing one arising out of the Israeli invasion and the presence of Israeli and … Read More
Mr. Farooq Abdullah has demonstrated a capacity for leadership which not many of even his friends believed he possessed. Sheikh Abdullah, of course, wanted Farooq to succeed him in preference to his son-in-law, Mr. GM Shah, who has for years made no secret of his ambitions. To that end the … Read More
It is difficult to believe that Sheikh Abdullah is dead. He has been so much a part of the scene as people of my generation have known it since the early forties that it is just not possible to think of India without him. The Sheikh was never an all-India … Read More
Mrs Gandhi is apparently furious with the press. Apparently because she, it can be argued, tends to denounce the entire press when in fact she has only one or two journalists and newspapers in mind. But the argument is thin. While Mrs. Gandhi may be indignant only with some journalists … Read More
It was not the first time on September 3 that journalists all over the country struck work. They have done so before on several occasions. But never before for many years has there been such unity among them. Even editors who often do not belong to unions and do not … Read More
The way Maharashtra’s affairs have been handled by the Congress (I) leadership has been so bizarre that it baffles description. If this is typical of the way those close to Mrs. Gandhi are functioning in other spheres, the country is in for very serious trouble indeed. Witness some of the … Read More
