June 2008 - Posts - Mappings

June 2008 - Posts

The Robert Frost moment

Posted by Jyoti Malhotra at 
The morning after the meeting between the UPA and the Left on June 25, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seems to be standing firm in his determination to take the nuclear deal to the next stage, that is, to the IAEA Board of Governors for approval. Meanwhile, the CPM Politburo is meeting on Sunday in a show of strength to support its general secretary...

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PM's gambit : Reaching out to the Left

Posted by Jyoti Malhotra at 
If there’s one man Manmohan Singh must really miss these days in his loneliest hours on Race Course Road, his official prime ministerial residence, its his fellow sardar and wily friend and leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Harkishan Singh Surjeet. Both Singh and Surjeet are from the old school, but they couldn’t be further poles apart...

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The silence of Manmohan Singh

Posted by Jyoti Malhotra at 
In all the sound and fury over the Indo-US nuclear deal over the last week, one fact seems to have been largely ignored : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s absolute silence. In fact, sources in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) tell me that the PM has given strict instructions not to deny a television story last week that said he has threatened to quit...

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Once upon a dinner party

Posted by Jyoti Malhotra at 
I have let about a week pass before responding to a comment by Sanjay Mathur (the only one so far), to my post on the badly laid plans of the Press Office in the Indian high commission in Islamabad (Party poopers in Islamabad), about a party for Indian and Pakistani journalists to mark the visit of External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee’s visit...

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The Imran Khan school of Islam

Posted by Jyoti Malhotra at 
Respect and humiliation, Imran Khan is telling me in his house by the canal in Lahore…in Islam we believe that you can get respect and humiliation only from Allah, no ordinary mortal can either humiliate you or give you respect. I’ve just finished interviewing Imran (check it out on youtube) and as he tucks into a large breakfast, he talks to me about...

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