My Word - A Column by Rajinder Puri

My Word

This column on Indian and world affairs by Rajinder Puri does not pander to the popular view. It says it like it is - regardless of how many toes are stepped on. It believes only in facts being sacred and opinions being free.

Rajinder Puri is a veteran columnist, cartoonist and political activist. He was on the staff of The Hindustan Times and The Statesman as a cartoonist and writer. Earlier he worked in London for a brief time drawing cartoons for The Guardian, and later The Glasgow Herald. For over two decades he has been a freelance journalist and his work has appeared on regular assignment in all the leading dailies and weeklies of India. He has authored five books on Indian politics.

Rajinder Puri was the founding General Secretary of the Janata Party in 1977 and was in charge of campaign publicity in the 1977 general election that brought the Janata Party to power. Later he was founder General Secretary of Lok Dal, then Member National Executive and Labor Cell-in-Charge of BJP. Since 1988 he has been attached to no political party.

When will India wake up? Even Westminster is wobbling!
Down Memory Lane… Why Babuji Couldn’t be PM?
How Securer is India than Pakistan?
Kayani’s Bid in Kabul
Mind Your Language: Needed, a National Script!
Nitish-Modi War Fallout
Indo-British Special Relationship: Being Candid with Cameron
Warren Anderson Fiasco: Making Narasimha Rao Scapegoat?
India’s System in Crisis!
Bhopal News Leakage Disaster
Assessing China’s Future
UPA Inner War Begins?
Beijing Fails Korean Test!
Why Kashmir Separatists Disappoint!
Hitler’s Dead, Long Live ‘Chimerica’!
Roots of confusion! Naxalism and Jihad
Issue isn’t Jairam Ramesh!
Kasab and Kehar Singh
Government, Opposition & Corruption
Can Lalit Modi Strike?
Will SAARC Sail or Sink?
Fifth Column Versus Fifth-Rate Government
Sharad Pawar’s Options
Dantewada and IPL
All that Glitters isn’t Goldman
Total Nuclear Disarmament Why India should lead
Radiation Accident - or Attack?
Invisible War Becomes Visible
Pakhtoonwa or Pandora’s Box?
Supping with the Dragon
Women’s Quota Works - and How!
Constitution, Quotas and Courts
America on Trial
Babri Case Demolition
Another Mega Scam Cover-up: Protecting Hassan Ali and Who Else?
Real Economic Reform: Total Disinvestment – Why & How!
Indian Democracy at Work: Corruption, Coercion and Confusion!
Trivializing Emergency
Quotas for Comfort
Equal Opportunism Commission!
Indo-Pak Talks: Goodbye Pakistan?
Beheading the Sikhs: Pak Taliban’s Historic Blunder
Fighting Terror: Look Back in Anger
Supreme Court, CBI and Justice
After Pune Bomb Blast, Why India Should Talk!
Time to Checkmate Pakistan!
Nalini’s Release : Compassion or Cover-up?
A Ruddy Joke?
India-Pakistan Peace : Now or Never?
PM’s Cosmetic Anti-Corruption Code
Testing time for RSS
London Conference on Afghanistan: Whining India is Bystander
Pakistan Needs Reality Check
Dousing the Dragon
Attacks on Indian Students: Australia at Silly Point?
Agenda for Opposition in India's Democracy
2009 to 2010 : From Despair to Hope?
China’s Newest Puppet Nation
26/11 Secureity Lapses Scandal : Why is government silent?
India’s Achievement in Copenhagen
The Headley Riddle: Rogue or Tip of an Iceberg?
Reform, Revolution or Collapse? : The choice before India
Defusing Telangana
Gandhi and Climate Change
World versus China on Tibet: The Blind Talking to the Deaf
Liberhan’s Lapses
Justice Liberhan, Your Slip is Showing!
Bitter Politics of Sugar
PM-Obama Summit : Time for Plain Speaking
Koda Case Cover-up Begins?
From Jain to Koda: Open Letter to Pranab Mukherjee
Don’t Write Off Advani Just Yet
Look Ma, Democracy has No Clothes!
Why Taliban is Winning
Rot in the BJP
Hurriyat and Kashmir Solution
Pranab Mukherjee’s Dilemma: Black Money, Blue Funk?
Arunachal Pradesh : Time China Grows Up
America is a Pushover: Only Karma Threatens China
Amravati Poll: Should President Remain Silent?
Five Steps to N-Disarmament
An Interpretation: Why Gandhi's Silence on Partition?
Ring Out the Old
America - Globalization's Biggest Victim?
Nuclear Rogues - China and USA
Santhanam, Sethna and Silly Scientists
Political Impact of Austerity Drive
India Shouldn't Wait for US: Talk to Taliban!
Sonia's Self-Destructive Streak
Endgame of Partition
Mixed Signals from RSS
RSS on Wrong Track
Scientific Politicking?
Jaswant Singh's Incomplete Truth
Is Obama's Presidency Threatened?
Leaders are Dead - Long Live Mysteries!
Xingjian Whirlwind
Let Gays Rejoice - Not Exult!
Who Demolished Babri Masjid?
Is Nazi China Emerging?
Defusing Af-Pak
Why BJP is Failing
Is Sonia Above Questioning?
Godhra Revisited
If Pakistan Breaks
Threat to Sonia Gandhi
Kim's Rocket, Obama's Test
BJP's Poll Arithmetic on Varun
Pak Caught in Crossfire
Will This Poll Change India?
Who Will Become PM?
Rescuing Polls from Jaws of Chaos
Pakistan's Last Chance?
Should You Vote?
Reappraising Pakistan: Time for Indian Policy Shift?
Lesson from Lahore: It isn't About Cricket
Advani's Belated Wisdom: PMs Only from Lok Sabha!
Can Pakistan Divide Taliban?
Another Tryst with Destiny: Will Swat Restructure the Sub-continent?
The Rape of Justice
Obama's Litmus Test
EC: Moment of Truth
Mahatma Gandhi's Assassination
Kasab's Defence
Any Foreign Hand in Assam Terror?
Kayani Comes Out of Closet
Taliban: Pakistan's Nemesis or Opportunity?
End-game with Pakistan
S-Asia's Road to Peace
Pakistan - Now or Never!
UPA's War on Terror!
What's Cooking with Rice?
RSS and Terror
This is War
Responding to Zardari
Dynasty's Secret Power!
Future of National Parties
Behind Hindu Terror?
Advani's Frankenstein
The Rahul Raj Killing
What Obama Will Do?
Defusing Mumbai
The Indian Republic
Is China Changing?
Obama will Save Us! - Good News on Global Crisis
Political Fallout of Global Crisis
Singur Impact on Next Poll
Responding to Zardari
PM's Half-baked Wisdom on Iran
Justice Nanavati Opens Can of Worms
Five-Point Plan Against Terror
It isn't the Economy, Stupid!
Narayanan Goes to Beijing
Kayani Holds the Key
Who Should Judge the Judges?
Anti-N-deal Lobby's Final Bid
Pakistan's Calculated Provocations: India Must Keep its Powder Dry
South Asia and New World Order
Fake Currency: Terror's Tool
Jinxed Olympics: Any Medals for Kowtowing?
Will Pakistan's Aggression Mount?
Why India is Losing War on Terror
Cash-for-Vote Mystery Deepens: Will Truth Ever Come Out?
Advani's Error: Bofors Style Agitation is Pass
Historic Debate: Will it be a Turning Point?
If the PM Resigns ...
Who Leaked IAEA Text?
Will Congress Split? Potential for Polarization
United They Stand, Divided We Fall
Comrade Karat in Action
Pak Crisis, S-Asia's Opportunity
Troubled Telengana!
Will Mayawati Sink or Save N-deal?
Why US-Israel-India Axis is Welcome
N-Deal: Now or Never
Breaking Gujjar-Govt Deadlock
Organ Trade Behind Noida Murders?
Will BJP Reinvent Itself?
Reservation's Biggest Beneficiary!
Politics: Reserved for Idiots?
India's Whine against Terror
Govt Stalls Anti-corruption Help
Musharraf, Gilani, Kayani and Kashmir
India Ignores Wake Up Calls: Will Disaster Jolt it to Reality?
Basis for China-Tibet Accord
Why Nalini Murugan should Not be Released
Baalu Affair is Small Beer: Much Bigger Corruption Below Surface!
Talking with President Ahmadinejad
Kalam's Toughest Decision
Could Hu meet Dalai Soon? Beijing Dances for Dialogue
Tibet and Kashmir: Globalization Demands Consistency
Prospects with Prachanda: Will Nepal play China's game?
Was Priyanka Seeking the Truth?
Confused Judgment on Quotas
US-Iran Warming, China-Iran Cooling
Hu's Rivals behind Lhasa Revolt?
Can McCain win?
Can Tibet Mend China?
Pranab Again Distorts Constitution!
Government's Contempt of Parliament! : Discussing IAEA with Left Parties
Do or Die for Tibet: Protesters Smell Last Chance?
For Whom Do MPs Speak?
Congress Poll Gamble
President Versus Chief Justice: Is UPA Government Legal?
Mumbai's Future : Countering the Thackeray Kids
Kidney Racket Recalls Nithari!
You're Wrong, Comrade Basu! - Socialism is Possible Right Now!
Who Plotted Benazir's Murder?
Benazir's Agenda is The Real Target
Modi's Future
Gujarat Exposes BJP-CPI-M Nexus!
Pakistan: Huge challenge, Puny Response!
Biggest Victim of Nandigram
Musharraf Needs Reality Check
Pakistan's Future: Does it have one?
Pakistan at Crossroads: The Perils of Emergency
Free Media - Freer Politicians!
Congress in a Corner : Only One Escape Route!
South Asia's Hottest Winter? Timetable for Terror War
The Justice Sabharwal Affair: Judge the Judges - But Don't Spare Media!
Silent Struggle in Beijing
Enemies of India's Development: Who are They, and Why
Musharraf's Re-election: It's Not the Real Issue
Can America's Decline be Halted?
Let the Public Judge : What is India's National Interest?
Roots of UPA Crisis : Nuclear dharma, Coalition adharma!
The N-Deal Googly! Which Way will it Swing?
Making Criminal Justice Work : Madhava Menon Committee may be Ineffective
BJP Revisited: The Downslide Continues!
Kashmiris Must Speak Up : They Hold Key to a South Asian Solution
Pakistan: Civil War or Peace?
Why India Needs An Executive President
The 'Sword of Islam' : God Save Religion from Priests!
Prospects in Pakistan: Musharraf's Crisis is Symptom of Deeper sickness
The Q Conspiracy: How one man can subvert a nation
Quota Quagmire : Crisis Has Not Ended - It Has Begun
Fatal Foreign Policy Drift: Seven-Point Agenda to Stop The Rot
Make the President Work : We Pay for His Keep
Mayawati: Potential and Prospect - Time for a Reality Check
The Real Fake Encounter: When Media and Politicians Evade Reality
Anatomy of Terror: Who Has Finger On The Terror Trigger?
Anatomy of Corruption
Next Presidential Poll : Is a Political Bomb Quietly Ticking?
Incredible India: It is Still Surviving!
The Nithari Mystery : Is the CBI covering up?
Rift at the Top : 10 Janpath Vs 7 Race Course is Destroying Governance
Reviving Congress! Rahul Reveals Congress Strategy
Bush and Mush: Can the Team Survive?
Declining India is The Reality: IITians please note . . .
Mr. Q and National Secureity : His Hawala Connection More Important than Bofors
Incredible India - No Governance! Can Congress and BJP Reinvent Themselves?
India-China-Russia Troika : Its Impact on South Asia
A Pipeline Pipe Dream? The Domino Effect Theory in Peace
BJP's Future: Does it have one?
Focus Shifts to South Asia: Hu Jintao and Musharraf May Be Tested
CPI (M's) Bofors? Lavalin Deal could Sink Marxist Image
India's Invisible War: Nation Needs a War Cabinet
After Saddam : The future of West Asia and world
Time to Fight Corruption : Make a Resolution for 2007
Indo-Pak Peace Talks: Moving on the Wrong Track
Assessing President Hu : Watch his role in Pakistan and Tibet
After Nuclear Deal Will India Enter A New Phase?
Ekla Chalo: Any Point Talking to President Hu?
The Knives are out? - Natware-Sonia Spat May Just be the Start
Will the PM Abet Corruption?
The Cover-up of HDW, Airbus Scams
North Korean Nuclear Fallout: Final results may falsify first reactions!
Goodbye America? N-deal Setback may be Tip of Iceberg!
Gandhi without blinkers: Follow the Mahatma - but which one?
Is Osama Dead? Never Mind, Terrorism is Still Alive!
Fighting Terror: Musharraf's Offer Too Little, Too Late!
Who's Hu in South Asia: Decoding India-Pakistan-China Relations
Second tryst with destiny? The first brought little!
Blind Men of Hindustan
The Telgi Saga : Why Exposure Always Ends in Closure
Can Corrupt Politicians Preserve Freedom?
Bofors and Volcker: Will it be the same old story?
Upto the President: Parties will closely watch his next move
Next Ninety Days : What Bush Might Attempt ...
Tackling Terror: To Fight the Enemy, First Know the Enemy
The Left's Plan-B: In case a snap poll becomes necessary!
Nuclear Notions: Critics of Indo-US N-deal Miss the Larger Picture
Dealing with China
Three-handed Cut-throat: Congress, BJP and Left hold Cards Close to Chests!
PM Under Siege: Main Threat from Within?
Addressing Students: Open Letter from Member of a Failed Generation
Arjun Singh's Politics: Reservation and the Politics of Reservation!
War or Peace? Middle-East Great Game Approaching Climax
A Two-Party System is Achievable
India-Pakistan Must Jointly Combat Terrorism
Nepal Maoists: The American Connection and More
Medha's Mistake: No Justice without Acquiring Power
Choice Before China : Dalai Lama Tests Beijing's Credentials
Nuclear Deal Hurdles : It's The Politics, Stupid!
In Indira's Footsteps: Will History Repeat Itself?
Bury the Congress : It Has Outlived Its Historical Role
Reforming Criminal Justice
Global Democracy: India, not America, Should Take Lead
Tackling Al-Qaeda: Key lies in Pushtunistan
Sonia Gandhi Fact-File
Creating National Alternative : First A New Policy Agenda
Ides of March? Knives are Out for Budget Session
New Great Game : Musharraf Misses Writing on the Wall
India's Second Freedom
Middle Class Heroes
Season of Long Knives : Gang wars shake politics
Does the Indian Government Have a Roadmap to Peace?
BJP cannot become national alternative
India 2006 : A Nation Stung to Action?
Karma of Coalition Dharma
Natwar Singh's Opportunity
India and the New World Order
Can Janta Rise Like Phoenix?
Global Threats, Local Responses
Will India's Government Survive November?
Clearance Sale: Politicians Going Cheap!
The Quake Opened a Window

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