Thrust into the Storm After the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections a big change came over the political scene in Delhi as well as in the country. In the camp of the ruling party anxiety was...
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Ice on Summer Seas Bhabani Sen Gupta Deprived of a wave, denied a leadership shine, unable to fire the imagination of the poor masses with anything more than gimmicks and rhetoric, the ruling...
they do. We seem to have lost our sense of 'accountability
Laying Out of a Rose Garden LANGUAGE speaks the political man. Face to face with the national election, prime minister Rajiv Gandhi has found a new language which now speaks him rather than he...
Flexible Power-People Equation Bhabani Sen Gupta India comes at the head of third world developing countries where the cleavage between power and people has not so far turned into direct, frontal...
The coming general election promises to be the dirtiest in the forty-year history of our democracy With all that, the election will probably produce a weaker prime minister who will not find it easy...
Trapped in the Sinking Titan Bhabani Sen Gupta The defeat of Rajiv Gandhi at the hands of the entrenched power structure in Bihar will now have a series of repercussions all over the Congress(I)...
With the Lok Sabha polls drawing nearer ana an electoral breeze already blowing over the country, political attention is focused on whether or not there is a TINA factor. Will the voters march to...
Decline and Fall? Bhabani Sen Gupta The bleeding wound inflicted on the body of the Congress(I) by its rout in Tamil Nadu will not heal in the months between now and the Lok Sabha poll. An...
too realises the worth of the lobbyists as organisers of vote banks. Rewards follow quickly--cash flows, a lucrative contract, allotment of a constituency for contesting the state assembly or Lok...
freedom of speech and expression, and, therefore, necessarily, of ideas ? Legal experts will argue it out, and interpret what is or is not a reasonable restriction on the right to freedom of ideas...
From Bofors to Boforitis The prime minister no longer denies that kickbacks have been paid, but not, he contends, to any Indian. Only he cannot offer proof. V P Singh's allegations about payments to...
Politics of Irregular Verbs With inflation at the kilting double-digit level and still rising, with the rural people getting the wrong end of the enclave development strategy that he has pursued for...
A Different Script Bhabani Sen Gupta In northern India, especially in the Hindi belt, a great number of people do seem to fear the passing of political power at the centre after the next polls to '...
about that and praises Gorbachev's decision to rehabilitate these people. Yet when one asks the question if this would lead to rehabilitation of Trotsky the answers are neither forthcoming nor clear...
