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Current Issue: April 2009

Maya Pradhan Mantri Ki!
What is regrettable is that coalition politics has not yet thrown up the culture of coalition dharma. This underlines not only the crisis of leadership but also the failure of the system to evolve right responses to the people's expectations at all levels. The people deserve quality leadership. But in a democracy they have to throw up right kind of persons to manage the messy socio-economic meltdown. For the present, what the country is seeing is crude politics in opportunism. The task ahead is daunting because the divisive process has turned into a ruthless numbers game. Both national level alliances — Congress-led UPA and BJP-led NDA — have cracked up and a loose Third Front is forged. The country’s well-known commentators — ASHISH BOSE, MAHENDRA VED, KUMARESH CHAKRAVARTY, A BALU, HARI JAISINGH dwell at length on all facets of the electoral scene. more...

WHAT STARS CONVEY
Who will be PM, will the government be stable?
Predicting electoral outcomes is a dicey business. Many well known astrologers had ended up with egg on their faces in the past. But that has not deterred them from predicting this time round too. OP VERMA met some well known star-gazers to find out what they say about Lok Sabha 2009 polls more...

SLOGAN MANTRAS
Substance matters more than slogans
Slogan-mongering is as old as politics . In democracies , however, slogan matters only when there is a charismatic leader to voice a timely socio-economic vision through it . And that too does not last if found without substance , argues JAGDISH N SINGH. more...

IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
HOW THINGS WILL PAN OUT IN PAKISTAN
There is a revived disenchantment with politicians and their ways in Pakistan. While nobody expects the army to step in as it has done in the past, and the army itself has been restrained, familiar strains in civilmilitary dealings can revive if confusion and uncertainty persist, says seasoned diplomat and former Foreign Secretary SALMAN HAIDAR, looking at the current scene in Pakistan. more...

IPL SHOW-II
IPL WILL BE UN-INDIAN, MAY BE UNINSPIRING TOO
The competition will now just be a 'television spectacle'. Initiated on the pattern of 'European football' and 'American rugby/base-ball, it will virtually be friendless in a foreign land, says veteran sports writer KR WADHWANEY, about the shifting of IPL to South Africa more...

CINEMASCOPE
FILMING MULTIPLE NARRATIVES
Often classified as a 'thinking actor' and in danger of being type-cast as an art house cinema Cinderella, this dusky beauty from Delhi, Nandita Das, has deliberately resisted shifting to Mumbai, be a part of Bollywood and make pots of money. In news for her maiden directorial venture Firaaq - the story of which is set over a 24-hour period, a month after the Gujarat carnage in 2002. The film has already won her a lot of laurels in the international festival circuits, including the recently concluded Kara International Film Festival, Karachi and Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose (USA). Das spells out her life and priorities in this conversation with SURESH KOHLI. more...

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