By Girish Nikam
Who is Lalit Modi? It indeed sounds like a stupid question to ask, after being bombarded for days and weeks with his grinning face and twittering ways all over the media.
Indeed the media, both TV and print, which had worshipped this modern day Pied Piper for having led the entire cricketing world towards [...]
By Girish Nikam
For the last nearly a month, the name of Nira Radia has been in circulation. Two publications, Outlook and The Pioneer, raised the issue first almost simultaneously. While Outlook concentrated on the issue of phone tapping, Pioneer, referred to the larger issue of the connections between Radia and Telecom Minister A.Raja, and how [...]
By Girish Nikam
The crisis which has engulfed Karnataka’s BJP Government, the first for the party in South India, has been in the making for the last over a year. In fact, less than two months after the hot-headed B.S.Yeddyurappa took over as the Chief Minister, political observers had started noticing disenchantment setting in against the [...]
By Girish Nikam
A couple of weeks back when he was in the capital to attend a Congress working committee meeting, he was talking of marginalizing the regional parties and reinforcing hold of the national parties(read Congress). He was not fully satisfied with results of the recent Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in which his party [...]
By Girish Nikam
“In military terms, both conventional and non-conventional, we neither have the capability nor the intention to match China, force for force. These are indeed sobering thoughts and therefore our strategy to deal with China would need to be in consonance with these realities,” Indian Navy Chief, Admiral Suresh Mehta
“We would like to strengthen [...]
By Girish Nikam
S. M. Krishna was preparing for a game of tennis when he got acall about his induction as the country’s new external affairs minister
I HAVE everything to gain and nothing to lose”. This was the remark made as a prospective candidate for the Bangalore South Lok Sabha seat, by S. M. Krishna, as [...]
By Girish Nikam
The voters of India did what was considered by many if not most, as the unthinkable. It voted back a Government at the Centre which had completed five full years and with an astonishing mandate for the leading party in the UPA coalition, Congress, for the first time in 25 years, which has [...]
By Girish Nikam
As the cacophony rises inversely proportionate to the countdown for the results of the marathon five phase Lok Sabha poll, amidst wild speculations, one thing seems to be clear if you cut out all the fluff—– BJP’s Prime Ministerial aspirant, L.K.Advani’s chances of achieving his ambition is becoming more and more distant.
The gaggle [...]
By Girish Nikam
Election Trail—Tamil Nadu
What happens in a state where there is no paucity of sops showered on the people? They will look for more! Tamil Nadu has been one State where successive governments have not only offered free sops, but have also successfully implemented them.
Right from the time, when the phenomenal film star, MG [...]
By Girish Nikam
Election Trail—Tamil Nadu
Why has the Tamil Nadu election scene got muddled up, and why is there this general feeling that there would be no sweep in favour of either of the two combines, led by DMK and AIADMK. It is not that there are no hopefuls who still predict, on both sides, that [...]
