Wednesday, July 15, 1998
Standing Nehru on his head
In the days when Rajiv Gandhi was denouncing the National Front as a national affront, a stunning riposte came from, who else but, George Fernandes. If coalitions can work in the mother-in-law's country, he asked, why wouldn't they in India? Had he been around Rajiv Gandhi could very well have countered that by asking, "Has Italian politics ever heard of Udham Singh Nagar, or dealt with a problem like that?"
The Jain joke and Congress blunder
The final volume of Justice Milap Chand Jain's official jokes and old stories retold is out. After passionately rehashing yellowing newspaper clippings and dusty files of intelligence agencies, he seems to have produced another epic in boredom and passed it off as investigation. Not that he was expected to do much else.
Death of decency
What happened to the Women's Bill in Parliament on Monday should surprise no one, but it certainly should make the political establishment hang its head in shame. The Bill may have been overtly opposed only by Messrs Laloo Prasad Yadav and Mulayam Singh Yadav and company, but covertly all political parties save those on the left have conspired to sabotage it.
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