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| Pitchfork and shovel |
| Bengal’s dilemma is neither new nor unique |
| You can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs. As bandh-bound Calcutta writhed uncomfortably last Monday, it seemed as if people blamed not Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s objective of fast-track industrialization to make up for lost time, but th... |
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| Truth in a frame |
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Sir — The photograph titled “Party punches, Buddha soothes” (Dec 10) was quite revealing. It shows ... |
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| Too much to take |
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Sir — Biswadeep Bhattacharya, a talented table tennis player, lost his life after his father, Deepa ... |
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| The injustice league |
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Sir — The attack on Somalia by the United States of America is shameful to say the least. It seems ... |
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| CONSTITUTION SUPREME |
| A balancing act is never easy. But the Indian judiciary, having the job imposed on it by a prodigious turn of events in India...|
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| So little to choose from |
| In a few days, three states will go to the polls. Of the three, the outcome in Punjab may indicate what the people think abou... |
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The difference between an ordinary democracy and a people’s democracy is that in a people’s democracy opinion cannot be freely expressed and therefore goes unheeded, whereas in an ordinary democracy, like those in the West, opinion can be freely expressed and therefore goes unheeded.
— PETER USTINOV
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| A home for Ms Nasreen |
| Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen’s extension of her permission to stay on in India is about to expire. She li... |
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