Pankaj Vohra

Ameen Sayani, a Legendary Broadcaster and a Household Name

February 24, 2024

With the passing away of Ameen Sayani, an era in broadcasting has actually come to an end. He not only enthralled his countless listeners in South Asia with his mesmerizing voice and inimitable style, but had so many anecdotes to recount, which brought out several unknown aspects that were connected...

Kamal Nath’s Virtual or Real Tryst with the Kamal

February 19, 2024

The spotlight has been on Congress veteran Kamal Nath, easily an exceptional senior leader who has won more elections than anyone else in his party. There has been intense speculation that he is disillusioned with the manner in which the High Command has treated him despite his long service, and...

Sharad Pawar: A victim of his own party or a master player?

February 17, 2024

Politics at one level is also a game of ironies. Maharashtra strongman Sharad Pawar, who had parted company with the Congress after his foreign origin remarks against Sonia Gandhi in 1999, is faced with a big dilemma. With the Maharashtra Speaker declaring the breakaway faction of Ajit Pawar as the...

Quadrangular Contest in Punjab likely as AAP, Cong face Each Other

February 12, 2024

After Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal also declared on Saturday that the Aam Aadmi Party would be contesting all the 13 seats in Punjab and one in Chandigarh, all alone. Effectively his announcement means that the Congress and the AAP have failed to reach an understanding regarding seat sharing, and shall...

Government’s decision separates Laxmikant-Pyarelal

February 10, 2024

Laxmikant-Pyarelal have been one of the most successful and accomplished music composers of the Hindi film industry and provided music for nearly 500 films during their illustrious career spanning 35 years. They were considered to be inseparable and thrived despite cut throat competition in the industry where there were big...

Bharat Ratna L K Advani: philosopher, friend and guide to Modi

February 5, 2024

The decision of the Central government to confer the prestigious Bharat Ratna award to BJP patriarch Lal Krishan Advani has come at the right time, though many of his admirers would still say, a little late. Advani was in real terms, the original architect of the BJP, though his senior...

Knives out for Navjot Singh Sidhu in Punjab Congress..

February 3, 2024

Navjot Singh Sidhu, former flamboyant Test opener and Congress leader has always been the stormy petrel of Punjab politics. He was at one point regarded as the future Chief Minister of the State and was instrumental in the removal of Captain Amarinder Singh from his position, much before his tenure...

Nitish’s acceptance by BJP shows its anxiety for Lok Sabha polls

January 29, 2024

It was a couple of months ago when in several of my columns and write-ups, I had predicted that the danger to the INDIA bloc could come from three individuals—Nitish Kumar, Arvind Kejriwal and Sharad Pawar---. While how the story would unfold so far as Kejriwal and Pawar go is...

Jagadish Shettar’s Ghar Wapsi leaves Congress RED-FACED

January 27, 2024

Shortly before the Lok Sabha elections, the announcement by prominent Lingayat leader and former Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar to rejoin the BJP has left the Congress red faced. Shettar who had shifted to the grand old party ahead of the 2023 Assembly polls after being denied a ticket to contest...

Mani Shankar Aiyar undermines his Boss Rajiv Gandhi

January 22, 2024

Former Union Minister and maverick Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has the propensity of harming his party’s interests, particularly when the Lok Sabha elections are barely a few months away. In 2014, when Narendra Modi was the Prime Ministerial nominee of the BJP, Aiyar on the sidelines of an AICC...

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