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.
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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,
From Allan Octavian Hume to Sonia Maino Gandhi, the Indian National Congress has indeed come a very long way. And in a totally different and wrong direction, one may add. The spirit of freedom and service to the nation that propelled the torch-bearers of this party of yore….