OPINION
EDITORIAL
The shine that wasn't
THE BJP-LED NATIONAL Democratic Alliance placed its record of managing the economy at the core of its electoral appeal and ended up paying the ultimate price. For such an appeal to work, it is essential that people cutting across social segments ...
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POLITICS
Have right alliances, win elections
The biggest lesson this election would teach the political parties is that gone are the days of big national outfits grabbing mostof the seats from all over the country to form a government virtually single-handedly. Alliances are the order of the da y because people would rather trust their smaller regional parties to safeguard their interests. So, it is imperative to get the political alliances right.
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Wanted: Exit strategy
THE US President, Mr George W. Bush, and his bumbling neocon advisers are getting deeper and deeper into the Iraqi quicksand. Their biggest worry now is how to extricate themselves from the consequences of a blunder of ...
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Where did BJP go wrong?
HISTORY has repeated itself. In 1980, Indira Gandhi came back to power after a brief spell of the Janata Party rule. Twenty-four years later, the Congress, under Ms Sonia Gandhi, is back in power. Few expected this. ...
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The other Bharat's backlash
By voting out the Vajpayee Government, the electorate, especially the rural voter, has only demanded parity. One good monsoon last year hid the fissures for the NDA Government to come up with its logo, India Shining. About 70 per cent of the populati on in the rural and semi-urban areas could not relate to it as their lives were hurtingly humdrum. In placing the farm sector as the first item on the agenda, economic reforms will not be hurt, says P. Devarajan, looking at the options before the ne w government.
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Stability factor
THE results of the Lok Sabha elections are certainly unexpected but in no way express any mandate against the economic reforms. The Congress-led alliance and the Left together account for a safe majority in the Lok ...
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Compulsions of coalition will decide future of reforms
WE ARE heading for a coalition government. Coalition governments headed by Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, V. P. Singh, Chandra Shekhar, H. D. Deve Gowda, I. K. Gujaral and the first two governments of Atal Bihari Vajpayee ...
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Changing priorities
THE outcome of the General Elections 2004 has taken most, if not all, by surprise. In the last few days the possibility of a hung Parliament was gaining ground. However, the magnitude of reversal of fortunes of the ...
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Swings unlikely in economic policy
OVER the past decade, economic policy and reforms have, by and large, demonstrated a unidirectional trend, irrespective of the party in power at the Centre. While it is quite premature at this juncture to take a firm ...
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Democracy, the winner
WITH no single party emerging the clear winner, there is understandably some anxiety on the governance front. Some of our citizens who were `feeling good' may now be `feeling bad'. No doubt at the moment they are ...
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Micro-level reality blanks macro illusions
THE verdict was dramatic and stunning. Who would have expected that the `feel-good' factor would sour so decisively for the ruling alliance? If the exit polls got it wrong, it was not in the direction, but only in the ...
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