Katiyar's `kar seva'
An unemployed Vinay Katiyar of the Bajrang Dal, no doubt embittered by the loss of his Faizabad seat to the Samajwadi Party in the recent elections, is now seeking to do a spot of kar seva for the nation. According to recent reports, he has plans to undertake a nationwide tour later this month to create the necessary climate of public opinion in favour of building a magnificent temple at Ayodhya.
The Front is exposed
Outside support is something that vitally affects the United Front, both as a giver and a taker. It remained in power only as long as it received such support from a reluctant Congress. Its survival for long as a single political entity can hardly be envisaged without its agreeing to extend backing of a like kind to either of the other two blocs.
High insecurity
This is a true account from about 50 years ago when titans strode the national scene. Not only were they closely involved with our freedom struggle, they later administered the country with marked distinction. A couple of them are associated with this story.
Propriety is the issue
The moral high ground which the BJP had tried to occupy slipped from beneath its feet further when Kalyan Singh expanded his Cabinet again. This is in addition to the 93 who were included in the government last time. So adverse was the reaction then that even the party leadership had to say that it was "an unfortunate aberration".
The growing Web of illusion
Information apartheid? You've got to be kidding. ``Ignore the Web and you are dead'' -- the phrase has been repeated so often that it is frequently mistaken to be true. The statistics and facts bandied in its support are impressive indeed.
Cheating the tax-payer
The last 20 years in Britain have been a period of the triumph of the private over the public. This is especially so for the economy. The Conservative governments under Margaret Thatcher began a process of privatising the over long list of industries which had been nationalised by the preceding Labour governments: the steel industry, car manufacturing, sugar, hotels, airlines, etc., etc.
