April 29th, 2011 
Girish Nikam What has been the secret of success of the Left Front Government in West Bengal, that they managed to rule the State for 34 long years and won seven successive elections to the State Assembly and why are they now floundering? The first part of the question has been dogging the minds of people all [...]
April 25th, 2011 Girish Nikam For people in any other part of the world, save for dictated nations, controlled democracies or ones that pretend to be one, what has happened for the last 34 years in West Bengal has been a source of continuous amazement. For that matter even within India, politicians of all non-left parties, have enviously wondered how [...]
April 19th, 2011 Girish Nikam Never before in post-independent India has such an electoral atmosphere prevailed, as it does now in the two southern States of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Two octogenarians, on the wrong side of their ninth decade, after completing five years in office as Chief Ministers, are fighting tooth and nail to retain power for their respective [...]
April 5th, 2011 Girish Nikam For the first time in the history of independent india probably, a powerful business leader and none less than the chief of the House of Tatas, has been put through the grind by a Parliamentary committee, which spells good for the strength and growing maturity of the Indian democracy. The Public Accounts Committee(PAC), headed by [...]
March 26th, 2011 Girish Nikam (A visit to the state and mixing with the beautiful people there should convince most how alarmist various apprehensions voiced about Arunachal Pradesh are…) Hindi hain hum Periodically we keep hearing about how Arunachal Pradesh is being eyed by the Chinese and how we could lose it, if we are not careful. A visit to [...]
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 [...]
February 16th, 2011 Girish Nikam For the last five months or more, ever since the Commonwealth Games scam broke out, the UPA Government had come under a siege, with one scandal and scam after another tumbling out. For the Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh, seen as probably the most honest Prime Minister India has ever had, this period has been the [...]
February 12th, 2011 Girish Nikam (This conversation shows the anxiety of Ratan Tata not to associate the name of Tata with The Electoral Trust which has been formed to donate funds to political parties, though it is evident from this conversation that all the funds into this Trust comes from Tata Companies. In fact Mamta Banerjee’s, the Union Minister for [...]
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February 12th, 2011 Girish Nikam (From this call with a Tata Executive whose name is not clear, it is evident that Radia is very much into prospecting for minerals outside India also and she is in active touch with the Tata executives about it. But what is intriguing is that the Income Tax authorities who tapped her telephone, in one [...]
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February 12th, 2011 Girish Nikam (Niira Radia in this conversation with Yateesh warns him about the Tata group, saying “they are worse than others”, when she talks of some proposal to be sent to them. It indicates how suspicious she is of everyone, including her most prestigious client. Also though she has employed Pradip Baijal, as a consultant, after using [...]
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