Wednesday, March 24, 1999
It's the values, stupid
I was witness, as a journalism student on a rainy Independence Day in 1976, the peak of the Emergency, to Bansi Lal berating people for taking the newspapers so seriously. What are they worth, he asked, if not two rupees a kilo after eight a.m.?
Cultural salvation through Sanskrit
Sanskrit and Hindi. A large number of members of the Constituent Assembly argued vehemently for Sanskrit, which is the mother of most of the Indian languages. Naziruddin Ahmed of West Bengal was one of the staunchest supporters of Sanskrit and his arguments are as relevant today as it was then.
Going Dotty Over DOTS
Once every year, we remember tuberculosis, but after the ribbons are cut and orations regurgitated for World TB Day, the problem continues to be with us, even as our health establishment moves on to other things.
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