A sterling performance all round
The voluntary retirement of Jyoti Basu from the chief ministership in West Bengal after a record tenure of 23 long years has set new standards of political culture and morality in India.

See how the mighty have fallen
Finally, USA is on its knees and hurray for that. Having spent their lifetime giving the world lectures on how we should conduct our lives, our politics, our economics, our negotiations, they have reduced themselves to the likes of the rest of the world with this latest saga in their national election.

Reaching closure in the US
The US is not yet in a political crisis. But it could fall into one. What must be avoided, at all costs, is the emergence of a president whom the other side condemns as a thief.