Friday, February 5, 1999
Direct-to-Home Mahajan
Though there was no live telecast, the blast in Pokharan was Direct-to-Parivar nationalism. As radioactivated pride raced through the ancient veins of India, no one in the Parivar could afford to smile like the Buddha.
Vajpayee's grand gesture
Atal Behari Vajpayee has always been associated with the grand gesture -- and the charisma and political stature to carry it through. Perhaps nobody had quite expected the alacrity with which he accepted Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's suggestion that he drive into Lahore on the inaugural bus service from Delhi.
The Jaswant-Strobe balancing act
Strobe Talbott was the Time magazine correspondent accredited to the State Department in the seventies when Henry Kissinger was the secretary of state. By all accounts, he was an outstanding journalist. How would he as a journalist have coped with the degree of secrecy that attends the Jaswant Singh-Strobe Talbott dialogue, now past its eighth round?
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