Crossing the river of politics
The Cauvery episode is showing that it is not enough to leave river water disputes to judicial resolution alone -- political statesmanship and a high order of expert backup are also required.

Fifty years of forgetting
Parliament probably did well in not holding the two-day session to review once more what the country lost or gained in the past 50 years. It would have been an embarrassment because the agenda for India adopted last year has already disappeared.

Dangerous liaisons
Leader of the Opposition Sharad Pawar's comment that Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's elevation to the prime ministership was not automatic if the party had to depend on the support of 100-odd outside MPs, denotes a change in its stand.

  Coming together
  In celebration of India
  Resonance of distant blasts