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By Marx, it's not spectral
In post-election India, majority is a word that is in search of a working adjective. Everyone, the absolute loser as well as the relative winner, is staking his claim to become the grammarian of a confused verdict. But there is a method in the confusion: the equal distribution of disillusion.
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Consumer is the king-maker
The average Indian consumer is normally unpredictable. Yet there is considerable clairvoyance in his behaviour. The potential of the Indian market was determined by the growing middle classes whose investments were mainly either speculative or personal.
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On the comeback trail
The BJP general secretary, Pramod Mahajan, recently ridiculed Congress stalwart Sharad Pawar as the "national leader -- of Maharashtra", for failing to campaign elsewhere in the country. He might now well kick himself for such a hasty verdict. For this is the one State which has stopped the BJP juggernaut.
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Needless aggression
Himachal Pradesh Governor Rama Devi can hardly be faulted for swearing in Virbhadra Singh as Chief Minister. As the elections had thrown up a hung Assembly, she went by the rightful precedent of inviting the leader of the single largest party to form a government. Yet, strangely, she has come under fire from, of all parties, the BJP.
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