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Friday, June 20 1997

Letters to the Editor

Basu for Bengal

Jyoti Basu and the Left Front of West Bengal were entitled to tributes as they completed two decades in office. However, the comrade and his coalition can hardly be said to have made history. The achievement has a better claim for a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

For returns, talk trade with Pakistan

India and Pakistan met in the conference room in Islamabad yesterday, for the second time since 1994. So much water has flowed down the Indus since, not least the fact that New Delhi has effectively won the Islamabad-aided war against terrorism, fought in the Kashmir valley over seven, long, bloody years.

Not just a First World problem -- Spectre of jobless growth

More than a hundred years ago, Victorian England persuaded the rest of the world that the objective of the Industrial Revolution was to reduce work. In the decades since, the reduction of work has slowly become an end in itself.

LTTE's not melting away

End of an enigma

Time Out -- Making sense of marriage