Hindustan Times
It has become a trend to dismiss Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a “weak Prime Minister”. It was a line formally adopted by the Opposition, mainly the BJP, and one which others parrot. Read more
(8 votes, average: 4 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 at 9:17 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Atal Behari Vajpayee, BJP, bureaucrat, Commonwealth games, Congress, HT Leadership Summit, Indo-US Nuclear deal, Kashmir issue, Left, LK Advani, Mamata Bannerjee, Maoists, Narasimha Rao, Opposition, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, rising prices, Sita Ram Kesari. Babri Masjid, sonia gandhi, Telangana issue, UPA, US President Obama
In the last ten days, I attended four events: from an iftaar to a birthday, a film show to a book release.
The last first: Humra Qureshi was releasing her book on Khushwant Singh which was a compilation of this thoughts on various things: from life, to death, to women and sex. Read more
(9 votes, average: 2.78 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 at 9:01 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Aamir, Advani, Humra Qureshi, iftaar, Khushwant, Mala Dayal, Manmohan Singh, Pratibha Advani, Rajiv Gandhi, Upinder Singh
Each time Kashmir is on the boil, my mind goes back to the eighties, when the problem had just begun. Read more
(14 votes, average: 4.21 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Filed under India · Tagged eighties, Hindus, India, Jagmohan, Jammu and Kashmir Governor, kashmir, Muslims, Pakistan, Srinagar, stranger friend
I remember many years ago, when I was in Orissa during an election I asked people their perception about the contenders. At that time there were two people who counted: Biju Patnaik, Orissa’s current Chief Minister Navin Patnaik’s father and JB Patnaik. Read more
(11 votes, average: 4.45 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Kumkum Chadha on Tuesday, August 3, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Biju Patnaik, disciplinary panel, Dixit-Gill-Kalmadi trio, hindustan times, IPL, JB Patnaik, Lalit Modi, MS Gill, Navin Patnaik, news, Shashi Tharoor, Suresh Kalmadi
