Archive for the ‘Analysis’ Category

The Radia Papers– Raja, Tata, Ambani connection

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 [...]

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Has the Lotus started wilting in the South?

By Girish Nikam The crisis which has engulfed Karnatakas 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 [...]

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Death of YSR–A Vacuum not easy to fill

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 [...]

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The Indo-China conundrum— Need for wisdom

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 [...]

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A minister who came in from the cold

By Girish Nikam S. M. Krishna was preparing for a game of tennis when he got acall about his induction as the countrys 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. [...]

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Good Governance, clever strategy and some mavericksKey to the 2009 Mandate

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 [...]

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Has Manmohan Singh been the key factor in this election?

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—– BJPs Prime Ministerial aspirant, L.K.Advanis chances of achieving his ambition is becoming more and more distant. [...]

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Free TV, Gas Cylinder and Cheap Rice–No formula for success, in Tamil Nadu atleast!

By Girish Nikam Election TrailTamil 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 [...]

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The Vijayakant and the Gounder factor – Why there will be no sweep

By Girish Nikam Election TrailTamil 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 [...]

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When it comes to theatrics, no State can beat Tamil Nadu

By Girish Nikam When it comes to theatrics no state can beat Tamil Nadu. A state which has based its politics around films and film stars, for the last over 40 years, it comes as no surprise. What makes the present elections poignant is that it just may be the last elections, the Tamil film [...]

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