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Wednesday, April 22, 1998
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Why Sonia treads softly
The Congress party is truly like the Bourbons: it forgets not and learns nought. Despite having been reduced to pathetic stagnation in parliamentary representation and being deprived of the oxygen of power which sustains it, the Congress goes on as ever, with Congressmen engaged more in getting one up on each other than in unsettling their political adversaries.
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The very idea of Phoolan Devi
By this time next week, Phoolan Devi's candidacy to the Nobel Peace Prize will be history. But the mere fact that her name could be floated in the public sphere, sanctioned by political authority on another continent, picked up by the international media and reacted to by Phoolan herself in India, is sobering.
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Scientific distemper
For a whole decade, health organisations the world over have been preaching that there is only one cure for AIDS: information. It is a pity that the message has not reached the Minister for Science and Technology yet. Since the minister also holds the Human Resource Development portfolio, the message is unlikely to reach schools and colleges either.
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The multiple flame
Man is his visions. So sang Octavio Paz, the poet who discovered man and his many worlds in his visions. He was this century's wayfarer of a poet, singing through the forking paths of civilisations, adding adjectives to cultural polyphony, and, at the end of each journey, withdrawing into solitude and silence.
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