The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Saturday, June 7 1997

Letters to the Editor

Wages of delay

Indian leaders have a genius for making the right noises and then doing either nothing or the wrong thing. That talent is on full display in the Union Government's handling of public sector disinvestment. On the one hand, there is the G. V. Ramakrishna Commission putting out a steady stream of carefully considered recommendations which now cover 15 PSUs.

Kerala model and the power elite

The Left Democratic Government in Kerala has taken a bold initiative of democratic decentralisation by involving the people in the planning and implementation of development programmes through the elected bodies at the village, bloc and district levels.

To Havana with love

Chanting Che, and armed with pencils and erasers, the children of the great land of Cuba swarm the classrooms. In red-bordered notebooks, whose ancestry goes back to the Bolivian jungles, they write songs to the revolution. And a million erasers banish the last traces of imperial conspiracy from the margins.

Hypocrisy of the honest -- The nation's bugbear

The truth about melanin