India is a country of intelligent individuals and foolish masses. Just try accosting a man on the road and he would offer you unsolicited enlightenment on the dos and don’ts in our daily life, but throw him into a crowd,
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Next year, same day, we would have completed eighteen. Intelligent readers, I am sure, would have already calculated that we are today ending our seventeenth year of continuous publication and stepping into the final year of minor life
For a second it seemed as if we were treading the streets of LTTE held Jaffna. It is only with a sense of disturbing incredulity that one is forced to believe that the scene actually belonged closer home
Our yellow towel rationalists, being vintage trail blazes, are always a step ahead. Even as the entire business community is abuzz with the fate of the Insurance Regulatory Bill, our home grown
The cat which was in the baggage that the pope, sorry, Pope, brought along from the Vatican, is out, as was expected. The three day royal Papal ride was exactly that, not only for the over 40% ‘communal’
Fortunately, Mandate’99 has ensured that only one House could be held to ransom. But, unfortunately, when it comes to the crunch as regards the scores of crucial Bills awaiting clearance, the Upper House,
It went on and on. And the show resembled some sort of a mass employment programme and in a sense it was true, for what better way to keep our restless politicians occupied than allowing them to languish
Politicians are generally bad losers though there are honourable exceptions. The common refrain of those who have bitten the dust at the hustings is that the polls were rigged against their favour.
For the Congressmen who expected the high voltage Sonia-mania to illuminate their lives and bring back the glorious days of absolute power, the outcome of Poll’99 must have come as a rude shock.