The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Sunday, May 25 1997

Letters to the Editor

Why India is holding its tongue

The process of dialogue between India and Pakistan has started, after three long years, at the highest level. All outstanding problems (read, including Kashmir) will be discussed within a framework to be established by the two foreign secretaries (they are expected to meet in Islamabad again next month).

`Elite women are over-represented in the present Parliament'

The Janata Dal working president Sharad Yadav has opened up a can of worms by his opposition to the Women's Reservation Bill in its present form. He has defied the party line and has angered the women's groups. But there is an uneasy feeling in political circles that Yadav, an OBC MP from Bihar, is only expressing views that many MPs hold privately but do not dare to express publicly for fear of being considered politically incorrect.

Heritage Foundation Index is lopsided

On the face of it, the Heritage Foundation-Wall Street Journal's latest Index of Economic Freedom should bring good cheer to India. It is, after all, perhaps the only index of development where India actually scores over China, although by only a narrow margin. Out of a total of 150 countries which have been ranked, India is graded 118 while China is 125th.

Education Ministry should be taught the basics

The smile of a spin doctor

We are not a colonial state, so why should there be secrecy