Sunday, March 21, 1999
The silence of the grave
There are times when one cannot write with a straight face, times when talking straight become more important. The murder of Outlook cartoonist, Irfan Hussain, marks such a moment. Last Saturday, they found his body with 28 stab wounds on it.
His Will be done
it was William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet that made the 16th century playwright into a pop icon in 1996 with teenybopper renditions by Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes and it is the forthcoming William Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream which presents him as the ultimate romantic.
Inside track
From being the chief trouble-shooter for the government, George Fernandes has become the main trouble-maker. It was Fernandes who was solely responsible for the summary removal of Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat as Navy Chief, threatening to resign if the Prime Minister did not go along.
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