Articles with tag: congress

India Votes for Stability

Dost Mittar May 16, 2009 interacts: 485

The election sees the passing of Congress baton from mother to son. Rahul Gandhi played a prominent role as a campaigner and seems to have impressed voters with his charm, modesty and maturity.

Result 2009

Shoaib Daniyal May 16, 2009 interacts: 39

Yes, it’s time to jive to Jai Ho. The big story of the day, apart from what I had for lunch, is that the Congress has swept the country, Singh is King and Sonia is our soniya.

Tharoor of Trivandrum

Rakesh Mani Apr 13, 2009 interacts: 33

If there is indeed a worthy candidate standing for election from the Trivandrum seat once occupied by the legendary V.K. Krishna Menon – then it is Tharoor.

Mother of All Speeches

saeed qureshi Feb 26, 2009 interacts: 12

After eight years that degenerated every aspect of American life, America is certainly fortunate for having a leader of the ability and talent of Barack Obama to lead the nation.

Congress Party's Dilemma

Rakesh Mani Feb 4, 2009 interacts: 8

What can Manmohan Singh do to avoid a war but still pander to the rampant anti-Pakistan sentiment among the masses.

6th December 1992

M B Qasmi Dec 5, 2007 interacts: 86

A turning point in Hindu Muslim relations in the post independence Indian history. It was a moment when all truths about religious coexistence suddenly proved false.

Communists and the Making of Pakistan

Yasser Latif Hamdani Oct 7, 2007 interacts: 117

History of the last years of Punjab under the Raj

A New US Vision?

Moeed Pirzada Aug 8, 2007 interacts: 20

The US Congressional bill designed to implement the '9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007' contains the seeds of new thinking on Pakistan.

J&K: The Hopes and Despairs of the Peace Process

Zafar Choudhary Feb 8, 2007 interacts: 20

It has taken pretty seven long years to reach a point of hope. Therefore, the current year is really most significant for Jammu and Kashmir and it has to be keenly watched how things unfold.

Prisoner of Conscience or Conscious Prisoner?

Farzana Versey May 29, 2006 interacts: 58

V.P.Singh is back with a new Jan Morcha. Look at the timing. ‘Mandal 2’ is staining the streets. Is he capitalising on the wave? He says in this interview, “We are sitting on a volcano. The very backward are looking up to me. In 15 years

Modi’s Men and their Mean Machines

Farzana Versey May 3, 2006 interacts: 204

Every illegal religious shrine ought to be demolished. Yet, I wish to know how a 200-year-old dargah of a Sufi saint qualifies as being ‘illegal’, is bulldozed and leads to mob violence. Gujarat is becoming an experimental lab for the Hindu Ra

Ba, Beti aur Bahu

Farzana Versey Apr 5, 2006 interacts: 95

Uma Bharti is putting on the loner act for only one reason – to save the BJP’s top rung. The real loner here is Sonia. Her godfathers are ghosts. Are both of them “mind-controlled victims”?

A Shameless Polemic Against the Nehru-Gandhi Dynasty

Ashish Sharma Mar 3, 2004 interacts: 98

One of the most pathetic sights in India today is to watch various Congress party officials beating their breasts over secularism and the rise of Hindu nationalism.