Saturday, September 5, 1998
Picnic at Pachmarhi
Look within and be self-critical, Jyoti Basu advised the Congress party president not long ago. The salubrious air of Pachmarhi may be conducive to that sort of activity.
Policing the Internet
In the early Nineties, when the Internet was still regarded as newfangled in the US, a suit involving intellectual property rights was filed in an East Coast court. Forgotten today, it was regarded as the Roe vs Wade of the Internet at that time.
Things fall apart
A few decades ago Dalpat Khan, son of Chand Mal of Kherla village, would have been a common Muslim name in Mewat. Many Meos, after all, bore Hindu names or tagged on Khan to a Hindu name. This is not so anymore. More and more Meos are conscious of being Muslims, defining their identity within the blueprint laid down by the Islamists. Dalpat Khan, 65, told me that his own children were called Bashir Ahmad and Abdul Subhan.
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