IE Columnist: Arunshourie

A goal they cannot disrupt

2009-09-19T00:01:59+05:30

Autonomy as the writers portray....

We must have no price...

2009-09-18T00:01:58+05:30

...and everyone must know that we have no price....

Turning a deaf ear

2009-09-17T00:01:57+05:30

As usual, Gandhiji’s rules, sprinkled throughout his writings, speeches, letters, are an excellent guide, even though for us pygmies...

A few lessons

2009-09-16T00:01:56+05:30

“Arun Shourie has attacked the Chief Minister, A.R. Antulay because the latter has opposed America’s decision to give arms...

Master strategies

2009-08-27T00:01:55+05:30

Here we are breaking each other’s heads over Partition when the man who presided over it has already assumed responsibility for so much that happened.

The ban and the law

2009-08-26T00:01:54+05:30

The book denigrates the Sardar,” said a spokesman of the Gujarat government on the first day, giving the reason for banning Jaswant Singh’s book...

A few extracts from the book

2009-08-25T00:01:53+05:30

Now, it so happens that I profoundly disagree with Mr. Jaswant Singh’s assessment of Jinnah. Ever since I read the multi-volume Jinnah Papers...

“Either diplomacy or war”

2009-08-13T00:01:52+05:30

“Trust but verify,” the Prime Minister says, invoking Ronald Reagan. Of course, Reagan did not just stop at enunciating a maxim....

Ring out the old, ring in the new

2009-07-17T00:01:51+05:30

As the circle narrows, animosities within it become sharper. Rivalries become more intense: for now, all that each has to do is to do two or three in, and he has the top job.

How the party withers away

2009-07-16T00:01:50+05:30

Surrounded by scheming courtiers, leaders lose touch with reality and the movement’s founding beliefs

The end of ideology

2009-07-15T00:01:49+05:30

How, by slow degrees, parties and leaders fall prey to vested interests....

On the way down

2009-07-14T00:01:48+05:30

Four instances, two questions. Indira Gandhi is able to block the implementation of the Allahabad High Court....

There’s more to life than GDP

2009-07-03T00:01:47+05:30

In many spheres, technologies that can affect major savings are already at hand. The Integrated Energy Policy...

Changing course on climate

2009-07-02T00:01:46+05:30

The official position that has been articulated on behalf of India at various international fora is built around the....

Sweet-talking the nation

2009-06-17T00:01:45+05:30

Arun Shourie talks back to the UPA agenda outlined in the president’s address. Excerpts:

New beginnings?

2009-06-15T00:01:44+05:30

Of course, I would have liked the election results to have been the other way round. But, of the remaining alternatives, what the electorate has handed down is the best one.

When the danger is imminent, loud and clear, our voice must be insistent, loud and clear

2009-05-26T00:01:43+05:30

Arun Shourie delivered a memorial lecture at the The United Services Institute in honour of their former Director, Maj. General Samir Sinha.

Bringing India’s money back to Indian shores

2009-04-21T00:01:42+05:30

On the tax havens issue, the Congress is caught in its own web

Facing down the neighbourhood bully

2009-04-07T00:01:41+05:30

India must resist weak rationalisations of China’s action in Tibet

Digging our head deeper in the sand

2009-04-07T00:01:40+05:30

India ignores the Tibet situation and China’s widening influence at the borders to its own peril.

Responding to the Economic Meltdown

2009-03-19T00:01:39+05:30

Several features about the current economic crisis stand out. The first, of course, is the sheer scale of what preceded it, and the magnitude of what has happened in its wake...

Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble

2009-03-04T00:01:38+05:30

With irresponsible spending and fantastical accounting, the government’s word now means nothing

Paper promises and alibis

2009-03-03T00:01:37+05:30

Subsidies need to be sharply targeted, Chidambaram said — a euphemism for saying that they were not reaching the intended beneficiaries. Hence, he took a decisive step: he announced another study of them

Half truths and whole lies

2009-02-28T00:01:36+05:30

A point-by-point expose of the government’s shifty economic logic

The wages of dereliction

2009-02-27T00:01:35+05:30

This government has used the global economic crisis to cover up its own mismanagement