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| June 30, 2008 | | 'Nuclear deal will affect Muslim votes'
Samajwadi Party General Secretary and MP Shahid Siddiqui speaks on his party's relations with the Congress, the Indo-US nuclear deal and Muslim votes.
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| June 26, 2008 | | 'They can't hoodwink the Left at every stage'
'This government has time and again proved that they are not worthy of our support. That is why we are talking about withdrawing support at this stage. We have supported it for the past four years. But the government has not proved that it is worthy of our support. So we will have no other option but withdraw support.'
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| June 25, 2008 | | 'The people of India are for the nuclear deal'
'We are part of a global nuclear embargo. We are subject to global nuclear apartheid. And we want to move on, so that our people get the opportunities that they deserve in the context of another option in the energy sector,' says Science & Technology Minister Kapil Sibal.
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| June 12, 2008 | |
'There's no greater place to live as a human being than the subcontinent'
'India as a subcontinent is a marvel of god's creation. There should never be a communal clash because so much of Islam and Hinduism have been together. We need to bring Kabir's Bhakti movement back, which the British crushed in such a crafty manner that we were left paralysed.' An interview with Tarek Fateh, author of a bold new book on Islam.
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| June 09, 2008 | |
'The Left parties have lost ground'
RSP leader Abani Roy spoke about the reason for pulling out of the UPA-Left co-ordination committee, the Centre's policies, the uneasy relations with the CPI-M and the Left's prospects in the coming general elections.
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| May 27, 2008 | |
'The Indian monsoon is very complex'
'Our weather pattern is difficult. Don't assess the IMD's skill with the skill of the USA. It is like comparing Tendulkar with a school cricket boy,' says Dr Mahadevan Rajeevan, Director, National Climate Centre.
Transcript of interview with Dalai Lama
Tibetans are losing faith in the Dalai Lama's conciliatory 'middle way' because of China's refusal to strike a deal with him over the region's future, the exiled spiritual leader said in an interview with The Financial Times.
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| May 26, 2008 | |
'Every political matter comes to court'
'If political matters come to the court for judicial review, we have to deal with those matters.' Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishnan in an exclusive interview.
'It's been a dream story'
'From one seat to a majority in the assembly in 20 years. The evolution of the BJP in Karnataka is a script in itself,' says Arun Jaitley, the party's strategist for the election.
'India has the highest number of hungry people on earth'
'Food grain availability for India's poorest is now approaching levels that haven't been seen since the British left. This has everything, sadly, to do with the rapacity of India's elites,' says Raj Patel, author, Stuffed and Starved.
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| May 25, 2008 | |
'The BJP indirectly raised Hindutva'
'If you compare the record of the BJP and NDA government they have a pathetic record of tackling terrorism, still they kept on talking about the recent incidents. They had no other issue to talk about because their performance in the Karnataka government was pathetic so they kept talking about national issues in the assembly elections.'
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| May 22, 2008 | |
'A criminal can't get a job but can be CM'
'The number of candidates in Karnataka with a criminal background has come down by five per cent when compared to the 2004 election,' says Professor Trilochan Sastry of Karnataka Election Watch.
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| April 30, 2008 | |
'JD-S has given K'taka some of the best CMs'
'There is a certain amount of respect for the JD-S as compared to the other parties. The plus point for the JD-S is the rule of H D Kumaraswamy as chief minister for 20 months. He is considered as the best chief minister of Karnataka till date.This will work in favour of the JD-S and thanks to this factor the party will earn a considerable number of votes.'
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| April 24, 2008 | |
'My father would have backed my decision'
Mamatha Nichani speaks about her political ambitions, her thoughts on the political scenario and her decision to join the Congress, a party which her father, Ramakrishna Hegde, had opposed all his life.
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| April 21, 2008 | |
‘The Dalai Lama is a realist’
'Tibetans want the Dalai Lama to be a rebel and bring down the Chinese as Gandhi brought down the British...' Pico Iyer rells Arthur J Pais.
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