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Retreat to advance
The election results have been good for the BJP, but not good enough. It is ironic that when for the first time it comes to having its leader as a Prime Minister who need not be a caricature of a person in power, it is hamstrung by alliances. The irony is the essence.
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Gone With the Wind on high seas
Michael Medved has made a career out of trying to make us believe how Hollywood has long been out of sync with America. That its golden age of innocent movies like Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life was when the country went to two world wars. That it gave Republican America Fatal Attraction when America wanted squeaky clean happy families.
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Magical maths in UP
The verdict, of course, was a foregone conclusion. With an admirable display of words, the Speaker of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, Kesari Nath Tripathi, formally recognised the Jantantric Bahujan Samaj Party as a legitimate breakaway faction of the BSP and dismissed the 24 petitions filed by BSP general secretary Mayawati, demanding their disqualification.
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Consensus after contest
The motive of the traditional contest between different parties to put their man in the Speaker's chair has been a combination of prestige and pragmatism by political parties determined to see their own man in this crucial job. Yet a healthy trend has, over the years, emerged in the office of the Speaker, strengthened by Purno A. Sangma.
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