A decade ago on February 10, 2001, I was among the privileged few who were allowed to cross over on foot to a one horse border town named Tamu in Myanmar from Moreh outpost in Manipur along with then external affairs minister Jaswant Singh. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 1:22 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Assam, Aung San Suu Kyi, china, Food Corporation of India, Hillary Clinton, India, Indian Border Roads Organisation, Jaswant Singh, Manipur, Mekong Ganga Economic Cooperation, Moreh outpost, Myanmar, Shishir Gupta, Tamu, Tamu-Kalewa-Kalemyo road, Than Shwe, Thein Sein, Yangon
After BJP’s dismal performance in the 2009 elections, the Sangh Parivar led by Mohan Bhagwat approached party patriarch LK Advani to decide the successor to party president Rajnath Singh, whose rather lacklustre term was coming to end in December that year. Read more

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Posted by Shishir Gupta on Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 7:50 am
Filed under India · Tagged 2014 general elections, Anant Kumar, BJP, Gulberg Society riot case, Jaswant Singh, L K Advani, Mohan Bhagwat, Narendra Modi, NDA, Nitin Gadkari, Rajnath Singh, sadhbhavana fast, Sangh Parivar, Sushma Swaraj, UPA government, Venkaiah Naidu, Yashwant Sinha