Hindustan Times
On weekends I have some fun on twitter and get in return a sense of the popular mood. So this Sunday when I tweeted in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s defense against charges hurled at him and some of his cabinet colleagues by “Team Anna”, the response was overwhelmingly negative. Read more
(19 votes, average: 2.74 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, May 28, 2012 at 11:36 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Andhra Pradesh, Anna Hazare, bjp, congress, india, internet, Jagan Mohan, Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister, Sonia Gandhi, Team Anna, UPA, Vinod Sharma
In order not to be misunderstood, I’ve done a brief preamble to this week’s blog on WikiLeaks’ that have put the government in the eye of another dust storm. Read more
(18 votes, average: 2.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, March 21, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Filed under World, india · Tagged Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Cables, CIA spymasters, Finance Minister, Hillary Clinton, hindustan times, India cables, Indian PR, Manmohan Singh, news, Pranab Mukherjee, Prime Minister, pro-US Montek Singh Ahluwalia, UPA, US, Wikileaks
“We feel Saudi Arabia, of course, has a long and close relationship with Pakistan. But that makes Saudi Arabia even a more of a valuable interlocutor for when we tell them about our experience, Saudi Arabia listens as somebody who is not in any way an enemy of Pakistan but a friend of Pakistan, therefore will listen with sympathy and concern to a matter of this nature.”
Can this statement of Shashi Tharoor during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to Saudi Arabia be interpreted as invitation for third party intervention by Riyadh in Indo-Pak affairs? Read more
(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Filed under india · Tagged 1972 Shimla Pact, Indo-Pak affairs, Manmohan Singh, Mujahideen/Taliban regimes, Prime Minister, Saudi Arabia, Shashi Tharoor, sympathy, valuable interlocutor
The BJP is back to its old tricks. Its spokesmen are running with their knives unsheathed after the new national security advisor, Shiv Shankar Menon. There’s about this renewed political tandava a sense of déjà vu. Remember the way the saffron archers shot arrows at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then Speaker Somnath Chatterjee soon after the UPA first took office in 2004? Read more
(20 votes, average: 1.9 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, February 1, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Filed under india · Tagged bjp, Manmohan Singh, Marxist party, national security advisor, Prime Minister, RSS Congress, Shibu Soren, Shiv Shankar Menon, Somnath Chatterjee, UPA
