The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Friday, July 18 1997

Letters to the Editor

Taming the rogue policeman Chidanand Rajghatta

Several developments with grave security implications for India have unfolded in the last fortnight. Pakistan claims to have successfully tested a Hatf-3 missile with a range of 800 kms. American intelligence reports have again indicated that Chinese medium range missiles can target installations and cities across most of India.

Unshared waters

The perennial river issue of the South is running a predictable course once again. The Prime Minister, according to Karnataka Chief Minister J H Patel who met I K Gujral in New Delhi recently, is going to call a conference of the chief ministers of the basin states soon to resolve the conflict. The optimism voiced about the outcome of the conference by Patel is unlikely to be widely shared.

Right to information

The case of Nirmala, the woman in Chandigarh who wants to rent her womb in order to support her family, draws attention to the speed with which Indian society and law are falling behind events. Logically, defamation is not a possibility in this case. Nirmala is simply hiring herself out for a biololical process.

Time out -- Tweedledums and Tweedledees

Relations after Raphel

Capitalist children of socialism