Mommy, Congress President; Sonny, Prime Minister. How would we be different from North Korea? »

So we have two options: One is to reduce the workload on Dr Singh; the other is to get someone younger as PM. »

We replaced the king or queen with a President. But it suffered from a fatal flaw. Would the Prime Minister collude with the President of the country or the party? »

The issue is really how much benefit of doubt should be given to a PM. And that boils down to just one thing eventually: The sort of person the PM is. »

The image of a somnambulant, powerless, and ineffective prime minister is changing. »

It is not the Opposition a PM has to fear, but his or her party colleagues. »

In a very large measure, the effete PMO is responsible for the Prime Minister's indecisiveness. That is ironic because he always knows what he wants. He also knows how to get it. »

…Oh yeah, the boy can play.Two weeks ago, this column had suggested that the time had come for the Prime Minister to redeem himself. He has done so with such a characteristically... »

As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh delivered what may well have been his last Independence Day oration from the Red Fort, his mood was perhaps like that of Napoleon urging on his recalcitran... »

Elsewhere, the Prime Minister's right to sack ministers is his or hers alone. In India, the Congress president has usurped it. »