Hindustan Times
It is tempting to dismiss the furore over Jaswant Singh’s expulsion from the BJP as a matter of no great consequence. After all, the BJP is a party that is out of power and seemingly in terminal decline. Jaswant Singh is at the end of his career and even if the BJP does manage to recapture power in five years’ time, he would probably have been too old to play an active role in the next government. Read more
(2 votes, average: 3 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged BJP, government, Jaswant singh, Jinnah, L.K. Advani, Mahatma Gandhi, muslims, Pakistan, Vajpayee, Vir Snaghvi
Whenever people tell me that India has changed after the liberalisation of the 1990s, that business is now independent of government and that India’s industrialists now get on with the job quietly, I always say, “Well, up to a point…” Read more
(13 votes, average: 2.92 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, August 15, 2009 at 7:43 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Ambani, Ambani gas row, Anil Ambani, Mukesh Ambani, Nusli Wadia of Bombay Dyeing, vir sanghvi
I am getting increasingly tired of people — well-meaning Indians and not so well-meaning Americans mainly — telling us that we have to look at the problem of terrorism from Pakistan’s point of view. We should accept, we are told, that we have not given Pakistan any proof about Hafiz Saeed or the 26/11 plotters that will stand up in a court of law. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, August 8, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged 26/11, Afghanistan, al-qaeda, Balochis, Balochistan, bin laden, Chidambaram, Guantanamo Bay, Hafiz Saeed, mumbai terror attack, Pakistan, Pakistani government
Perhaps by the time you read this, good sense will have prevailed. But as things stand now, there is no doubt that the owners of India’s private airlines are nuts. Their threat to suspend all services for a day on August 18 is plain crazy. It brings back memories of the era before the private aviation boom when we were all utterly dependent on Indian Airlines and thus subject to lightening strikes by pilots, traffic assistants, baggage handlers and the like. Read more
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Saturday, August 1, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Filed under counterpoint · Tagged Air India, baggage handlers, government policy, Indian airlines, Kingfisher, lightening strikes by pilots, Malaysia and Thailand, private airlines, Singapore, traffic assistants
