Mani Shankar Aiyar, former member of the Indian Foreign Service, former member of the Lok Sabha, is now an advisor to Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

•Reprieve for Vajpayee
•The end for Vajpayee appears to be nigh
•US pressures on India will not work
•Has the goal of a State of Palestine been advanced?
• A matter of image
• It's been a dark Diwali
•Stop the review!
•The lesson Sonia learned and Blair was taught
• The 20 billion rupee question
•Being uncivil to civil servants
•There is no incompatibility between socialism and Manmohanomics
• Make me President, Make me King!
• Whenever politics stands in the way of speedy economic decisions, it has been pushed aside
• The business of business will henceforth be the business of the nation
• A word of advice to the PM from a well-wisher
• Jayalalitha is bound to be part of the
New Delhi power structure
• The middle class is determined to marginalise
the Congress in the next polls
• How can a Budget which confesses failing to spend
Rs 100 billion development funds be the best Budget in decades?
• Deve Gowda is ready to 'die for Mulayam Singh'
• Too many things wrong with the Budget
• Our quarrels we share, And we hold to our ground,
So we hunt with the hound, And we run with the hare!
• Bofors and the Quattrocchi connection:
Does 'Q' lead to 'R' - or 'N'?
• An Indo-Pak dialogue will give us something to celebrate
in this 50th year of our Independence
• Both Benazir and Jayalalitha lie buried in the ashes of their follies.
Both will rise from these ashes like the legendary Phoenix:
• Pay, perks and performance
• Inder Gujral's astonishing foreign policy triumphs
• Judicial activism has certainly given politicians an outstanding
opportunity to settle scores -- but has it advanced
the cause of justice?
• Yawn! Dairy of a somnambulist
• P Chidambaram and the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi
• Basu should know the CPI-M's blind anti-Congressism
is costing India dear
• Planning is not just a socialist concept.
It is a capitalist tool too
• Regionalism and a megascam
• Gill must work on electoral reforms' nitty-gritty
• Aamar sonar Bangla/Aamitomai bhalobashi.
• If only Jyotibabu had not demurred...
• Babudom and the Charter of Ethics
• The importance of being Manmohan Singh
• What ails Pakistan?
• Yes, Prime Minister is dozing
• Fifty years of freedom: What is there to celebrate?
• The Jain Commission can at last focus on the 'sequence of events'
which led to Rajiv's killing
• A miracle is being repeated in some one million
panchayat wards around the country
• How simple it would be if corruption in our society both originated
in and ended with politicians
• Saffron Chic
• The Indian Democracy
• All through the years that Saddam was doing for Washington
what Washington could not do for itself,
not a humanitarian flutter about what he was doing
was to be heard in the world's human rights capital
• Judges on the scale
• The lost patch; the lost votes
• Can inter-regional problems be solved without the umpire at the
Centre basing himself on supraregional, pan-national compulsions?
• Is this the tryst we sought with destiny when freedom
came at midnight?
• Even Raja Harishchandra would not be able to cope
with Nirvachan Sadan's Messiah-power