March 29th, 2011 
Girish Nikam No other state in this country can match Tamil Nadu, when it comes to showering sops on its voters. Come elections, and there is virtually a downpour of freebies offered to the voters, by political parties, with the sole aim of garnering their votes. Last week, both DMK and AIADMK competed with each other in [...]
March 10th, 2011 Girish Nikam Any political party dealing with the two Dravidian parties, DMK or AIADMK, is aware that it will have to muster its best bargaining skills. The hallmark of these two parties, more so the DMK, has been the brinkmanship it indulges in. These Dravidian party leaders won’t bat an eye lid before taking the relationship to [...]
December 24th, 2010 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam It was always suspected, but now there are more evidences to link it. That Niira Radia did not come to acquire the clout she did, after the UPA came to power, was a well acknowledged fact. Rao Dheeraj Singh’s explosive revealations in the coming issue of India Today magazine, already aired by [...]
December 20th, 2010 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam Just three days back Congress party and the UPA Government seemed to have lost all the initiative, and looked like a party and government under siege. Even many of the Ministers in the Government as well as party apparatchiks were expressing worry about the declining image, as the charges of corruption and [...]
December 14th, 2010 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam The wide net cast by Niira Radia across the political, bureaucratic, corporate and media circles, was not just limited to people in Delhi or just the Karunanidhi family in Tamil Nadu. It is now clear that she had made friends even among the Cabinet ministers in the Karunanidhi government in Tamil Nadu, [...]
December 11th, 2010 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam The second round of revelations of the Radia Tapes, an enormous 800 conversations of Niira Radia(remember still over 4,000 conversations are yet to make the light of the day) with various people, which have been accessed by the Outlook magazine, and being downloaded on the their website, since late last night, will [...]
November 23rd, 2010 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam There have been a lot of justifications coming from those Journalists and their supporters about the Radia Tapes being sensationalised, as the conversations are just part of the “gathering of information” which any journalist does, in the process of finding stories. However for any keen reader who has followed the first part [...]
November 21st, 2010 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam The Niira Radia Tapes which has caused a storm, after a part of it was published in both the Open and Outlook magazines this week, but picked up by only Mail Today newspaper partly, and ignored by all other newspapers and TV channels, shows the extent to which the rot has set [...]
November 19th, 2010 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam When Andimuthu Raja, landed in the Chennai airport in the night, after he had handed over his resignation letter to the Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh, about five thousand people had gathered. Not to spew venom at him or protest against him, for having been involved in what is being touted as the [...]
May 19th, 2010 Girish Nikam 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 [...]
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