August 2nd, 2011 
Girish Nikam For a national political party like the BJP, nothing can be more embarrassing than their top decision-making body, the Central Parliamentary Board, is made to look like a helpless spectator. A party which prides itself on its “disciplined cadre” and never misses an occasion to blow its trumpet now finds itself in an unprecedented state. [...]
July 7th, 2011 Girish Nikam On Dec.9, 2009, when Home Minister P.Chidambaram made that late night statement, promising to initiate the process of the formation of a separate state of Telangana, succumbing to the pressure from the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) chief, K.Chandrashekara Rao’s fast unto death, the Centre had opened a Pandora’s box. As the Telangana region starts to boil [...]
May 18th, 2011 Girish Nikam Much is being written, discussed and analysed about the last week’s results to the five State legislative Assemblies. One common grain of thought in all this is how people of these States have shown to the world that corruption is no more going to be tolerated. Even if the Governments perform, corruption and nepotism can [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
November 25th, 2010 Girish Nikam By Girish Nikam The nexus between the corporates, bureaucrats and politics is an issue which has dogged this country for a long time. However it has been routinely passed over, though periodically some song and dance of it is made in the media, before it gets buried in the next “breaking news”. What this tape [...]
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