Friday, November 20, 1998
Bites in the soundbites
Wave a microphone before a politician these days, and what emanates is a seamless wave of innuendo and diatribe, diatribe and innuendo. Given the bipartisan nature of the polity, voters are left with the BJP slugging it out with the Congress.
A cosmic joke
There was a twist to the tail. If Temple-Tuttle could smile, it would be smiling now at the fantasies and foibles of the earthlings it visits once in 33 years.
Living outside heritage
The morning of the Education Ministers' Conference was not the first, or else the lines of Bhartrihari would not have seemed so contemporary. The ancient poet could make do with word subhashitam or "good speech" as it was then an accepted synonym of "learning", "knowledge", vani, vak or even Saraswati.
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