Month: March 1998

We are either searching for hidden bombs or hidden agendas. Both are of explosive potential and can blow up all and sundry if not handled and defused with care. While bombs deliver instant death, agendas may take time to achieve critical potency and when they do..

Naidu’s brief interlude with the geo-metric sounding equidistance all but ended yesterday as his party MPs voted decisively in favour of the Vajpayee government and thereby giving it the credibility of a true majority, and not merely a working majority dependent on abstentions alone.

It is now just a matter of time and luck Either the police reach there first or the hidden bombs go off. Chennai has been lucky last three times around, in just two weeks, when the police ‘discovered’ huge caches of explosives running into several kilograms, just in time.

A learned colleague informs me that in ancient Greece democracy was described as the rule of the rabble. If the din and the attendant turmoil that marked the beginning of the 12th Lok Sabha was any indication

When Lord Krishna blew his conch to herald the beginning of the great war ,there was, despite the impending bloodbath, at least one consolation. Both the Pandavas and Kauravas knew who they were fighting and who their allies were. But democratic wars defy such norms.

The United Front was born with a massive hole in the heart, what with its inbuilt-potential for self-destruction guaranteed by an assortment of disparate elements and the body itself cobbled up in a great hurry, without regard for a soul or identity. Its tryst With doom was always a question of time; and a matter of destiny.

Now that the commotion over the formation of Government at the Centre is over, it is back to the business of governance as usual. It is as if a whole nation has come back from a long vacation and it may take quite some time before the people and politicians

If the Kovai blasts killed 60, the fear of blasts appears to be squeezing the life out of multitudes every day. The widespread sense of fear and apprehension that has gripped the people of TN ever since the serial blasts in Kovai shows no signs of abating and, on the contrary…

Evidently, Sonia Maino Gandhi is ex-tremely paranoid. Her all out efforts to convert the hallowed Indian National Congress into Sonia Congress, by bend-ing rules, throwing norms to winds, dump-ing reputations and above all paying scant regard to the feelings of her fellow senior Congressmen

At last it appears to be curtains down for the great Indian circus. It is of course, our fond wish that nothing of distress would happen between now and 19th of March. Atal Behan Vajpayee’s tryst with Race Course Road is now a certainty with the Rashtrapathi,