India needs sustainable political and governance reform, not 'Mr India'-type prime-time populism, says Sanjaya Baru Anna Hazare got his timing right, as Kumar Ketkar, a distinguished journalist......
It was said to be a close fight, but as it turned out President Barack Obama effortlessly went past the challenge posed by his Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Obama could well find that little......
Sanjaya Baru, former media advisor to prime minister Manmohan Singh, delivered the second H Y Sharada Prasad memorial lecture on media, business and government recently in Delhi. Sharada Prasad was......
'Given his stint in Beijing, as India's longest serving ambassador there and that too through some challenging and interesting times, Jaishankar ought to have been appointed as foreign secretary in......
A day after the Prime Minister’s Office sought to counter the perception that Manmohan Singh has been "weak" in his tenure, senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Arun Jaitley on Saturday took......
Meeting of minds is needed and possible between India and the US, says Sanjaya Baru. This photograph, of an imperious Michel Camdessus, former managing director of the IMF, standing hands folded......
It's a question a lot of people around the world are going to ask this winter, says Sanjaya Baru. Intervening in the debate on the motion of confidence in the Lok Sabha on July 22, 2008, Congress......
France and India have become partners in building a multipolar world, French President Nicholas Sarkozy's adviser tells Sanjaya Baru. A month before the Lehman Brothers' collapse moved the tectonic......
The global financial crisis has empowered fiscal conservatives in India, writes Sanjaya Baru. Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a finance ministry that liked to keep its Budgets balanced.......
Will the finance minister present a legacy-seeking Budget? asks Sanjaya Baru. After more than a quarter century, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee will be presenting this week what he could finally......
Nothing 'accidental' about this movie, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf. The Atal Bihari Vajpayee government had an opportunity to introduce a bill in Parliament to disallow a person of foreign origin to......
Say hello to the cast of The Accidental Prime Minister. The key players in the The Accidental Prime Minister have been unveiled. Anupam Kher, who plays Dr Manmohan Singh, looks almost......