His earlier promise (or threat) to be ready to move to the opposition benches notwithstanding (September 17 aboard the plane on the way back from the Mandal rally in Madras), it could have been easily predicted, as it was in this column last Sunday, that V.P. Singh will not resign … Read More
The BJP leadership deserves to be warmly commended for its October 17 decision to withdraw support from the VP Singh government in case the latter blocks LK Advani’s rathyatra to Ayodhya and the construction of the proposed Rama temple at the Janmabhoomi site in that holy city. In a basic … Read More
As in 1940 when the demand for a separate homeland was put forward by the Muslim League, Indian Muslims stand on a crossroads 50 years later today. As then, they have taken a wrong turn, this time on the Ram Janambhoomi issue. As then, they have been egged on by … Read More
It is not for us as observers either to commend or condemn acts of self-immolation by young boys and girls, many of them still in their teens, in protest against V.P. Singh’s decision to implement the Mandal Commission ‘report’. We can only try to understand the phenomenon and its possible … Read More
