Hindustan Times
The message from the Congress’s Jaipur convention wasn’t as much about Rahul Gandhi’s elevation – which was a long-due formality – as about the party’s bid to reach out to the increasingly restive urban middle class. Read more
(16 votes, average: 1.75 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, January 21, 2013 at 9:40 pm
Filed under india · Tagged congress, hindustan times, Jaipur conclave, Lok sabha polls, news, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi, Vinod Sharma
Autobiographies that aren’t self-commendatory help chronicle history better. That’s the least top leaders and constitutional functionaries can do to empower public opinion or disabuse it of motivated propaganda. Read more
(23 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, July 2, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Filed under india · Tagged APJ Abdul Kalam, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, hindustan times, L K Advani, Manmohan Singh, news, Sonia Gandhi, Sushma Swaraj, UPA, Vinod Sharma
Differences within Anna Hazare’s team and between some of his associates and Baba Ramdev are hardly a reason for the government to rejoice. One can question their tactics, not their resolve or persistence. Despite diminishing appeal, their credibility among sections of the population is higher than the ruling combine’s. Read more
(16 votes, average: 2.38 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, June 4, 2012 at 7:06 pm
Filed under india · Tagged Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, Baba Ramdev, CAG, coalgate, congress, hindustan times, IAC, India Against Corruption, Lalu Prasad, Mulayam Singh, news, Ramlila Maidan, Separated at Birth, sharad yadav, Sonia Gandhi, Team Anna, UPA, Uttarakhand, V Narayanasami, Vinod Sharma
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
What’s happening to our national parties? Are they fast reducing to mere launch boards for ambitious politicians who have scant regard for discipline and are distrustful forever of their peers and rivals? Read more
(16 votes, average: 2.31 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, October 3, 2011 at 6:48 pm
Filed under india · Tagged bjp, congress, hindustantimes, HT blogs, Manmohan Singh, Narendra Modi, national politics, news, Sanjeev Bhatt, Separated at Birth, Sonia Gandhi, UPA, Vinod Sharma
Three countries in South Asia are in the middle of political maelstroms for reasons unique to their polity. Read more
(18 votes, average: 1.78 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, August 8, 2011 at 5:51 pm
Filed under india · Tagged abbottabad, Communist Party of Nepal, hatchet, hindustan times, Madheshi splinter groups, Nawaz Sharif, NDA, news, Osama Bin Laden, political maelstroms, PPP, Sonia Gandhi, UPA, Vinod Sharma
Lal Krishna Advani is an emotional man easily moved to tears. Some might consider that a personality flaw because leaders come across as weak while betraying emotions in public. Read more
(24 votes, average: 3.08 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, February 21, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Filed under india · Tagged AICC, apology, Bimla Sindhi, bjp, Chandrashekha, hindustan times, Lal Krishna Advani, news, Pandit Nehru, Parliament, Sonia Gandhi, statesmanship, Sushma Swaraj, Swiss bank, Vajpayee
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh direly needed a fresh coat of Teflon amid a plethora of scams haunting his government. On Monday, he sought to acquire one with some political finesse and an air of conviction so typical of him. Read more
(19 votes, average: 2.11 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, December 20, 2010 at 8:25 pm
Filed under india · Tagged 2G scam, AICC plenary, bjp, Cag report, CWG-Telecom scandals, government, Joint Parliament Committee, Left, Murli Manohar Joshi, Opposition, Parliament, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Public Accounts Committee, scams, Sonia Gandhi, UPA
(12 votes, average: 2.67 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, June 14, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Filed under india · Tagged anti-Sikh riots, bhopal gas leak, carbide plant, congress, December 1984, Digvijay Singh, Indira Gandhi’s assassination, Jairam Ramesh, Rajiv Gandhi, Rita Bahuguna, Satyabrat Chaturvedi, Sonia Gandhi, spy scandal, Union Carbide, Veerappa Moily, Warren Anderson
No foreword to a blog on contemporary Pakistan can be complete without some mention of Asif Zardari, who promised to model himself after India’s Sonia Gandhi but fell to the lure of de jure power so assiduously shunned by Indira’s bahu. Read more
(4 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vinod Sharma on Monday, April 6, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Filed under World · Tagged Asif Zardari, Benazir Bhutto., Congress's prime ministerial, Narasimha Rao, Nawaz Sharif, Sonia Gandhi
