February 12th, 2009 
Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam A couple of weeks back when The Hindu broke the controversy about the bickering in the Election Commission between the Chief Election Commissioner N.Gopalaswami and his colleague, Election Commissioner, Navin Chawla, all hell seemed to have broken loose, just on the eve of elections. The media and the polity as well as [...]
December 10th, 2008 Girish Nikam By Girish NikamThe last few weeks in this country has been an eye opener. When those ten trigger happy young men (were there really only ten?), landed on the shore of Mumbai and caused mayhem, the chattering classes woke up for the first time to this form of terror in their lives. So far the [...]
November 25th, 2008 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam In the year 2003, around the same time when elections to the five states, where it is underway now, was on, all the talk centred around the impact of those elections on the Lok Sabha and its longevity. When the results came out in favour of the BJP, which managed to wrest, [...]
November 20th, 2008 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam It was touching to read the way in which the BJP’s Prime Minister-in-waiting L.K.Advani rushed to the defence of one of the accused in the Malegaon blasts, Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur the other day. His reasoning that he had kept quiet all this time as Sadhus and Sadhvis and army officers were [...]
November 6th, 2008 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam “It has taken a long time coming——– Change has come to America!” In those charged words of the President-elect of US of A, beckons a future, not just for that country, but to the nations around the world. A world less prejudiced, a world less racist, a world more just and a [...]
October 28th, 2008 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam Now, now, don’t tell me Hindus can also indulge in terrorism! How bizarre! How can that be possible? This vote bank politics is being taken just too far. You can’t brand nationalists as terrorists. Don’t push Hindus into a corner like this. It will be at your own peril. There is no [...]
October 21st, 2008 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam It is hard times all over. The newspapers and TV is full of bad news. Of course the only good news amid all this gloom and misery is the thrashing India gave to Australia, winning by the largest margin ever in Mohali. But that is little consolation for the strife and conflict [...]
December 3rd, 2006 Girish Nikam Politics, they say makes strange bedfellows. And we thought we had seen enough of this in this country during the last decade. But the last week’s spectacle in West Bengal seemed stranger than fiction, where people and parties holding extreme and conflicting political views, seemed to have converged.
November 27th, 2006 Girish Nikam A few months back, a senior BJP leader also an MP, who has been responsible for the wins and losses of a few States, more wins actually, was distraught about the state of affairs in his party. Discussing informally with this columnist about it, he pointed out that one of the major challenges faced by the party was the question of leadership. A fact, he stressed, everyone and his aunt knew about. But sadly, he said, the two people who need to know about it just refuse to admit it. One does not need to be a very canny observer of politics to know whom he was referring to!
November 12th, 2006 Girish Nikam “Deflated and disappointed, I wondered how much I was to blame for the debacle: whether we had lost the election over health care; whether I had gambled on the country’s acceptance of my active role and lost. And I struggled to understand how I had become such a lightening rod for people’s anger. Bill was miserable, and it was painful to watch someone I loved so much hurting so deeply” — Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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