It is quite surprising how truth could be twisted to suit convenience and to bale out powedul men in trouble. But it is alarming to learn that there can be so many takers for the farce.
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Self-respect and rationalism are expendable ideologies. If found inconvenient they can always be sacrificed at the altar of political expediency. The DMK and its leader are now in the grip of one such predicament and have typically sought to give their cherished ideals a silent burial.
The 19th of November happers to be former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s birthday. The Congressmen of the country will no doubt go through the motions of hornage to the stain leader but there is little hope that there would be any introspection within the party on this occasion,
It is foolish to throw stones from inside a glass house. But the DMK had been doing just that ever since it ascended to power, unmindful of the timebomb which has been ticking under its edifice for the last several years. The LTTE ghost simply refuses to be exorcised and keeps coming back to haunt the party and its leaders.
A ruling party worthy in the State has come out with a fantastic defence for his party and its leader. His argument runs thus: The Jain panel report indictment does not amount to a judgement and are just opinions.
Caution dictates that one should wait for the tabling of the Jain panel’s interim rea port in the coming session of the Parliament, as promised by the Home minister, before any judgement is delivered • on those ‘indicted’..
The name of the game in Delhi is now horse-trading. With the BJP issuing a virtual tender for willing Members of Parliament to join its fold to enable it to repeat UP at the Centre, almost all political par-ties have now gone into a huddle on how to resist the BJP onslaught.
The year was 1989.It was just another routine night shift for a sub-editor in a news agency in Chennai, then Madras. But when the phone rang past midnight it was’nt just another call, for the caller was none other than the then Chief Minister of the State…
The brigand’s melting point is now at an all tine low. At least this is the inference one can draw from his recent tape recorded message to civilisation, sent through the grateful hostages. These days Veerappan does not seem to need the services of the tribals for couriering his messages.