Insuring the future
So the government has finally got moving on the promises of quick-fire reforms made by both Prime Minister Vajpayee and Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha.

The coup in Kerala
Comrade Raja of the CPI has been quoted saying he doesn't know how India can possibly talk to a military dictatorship in Pakistan. How should one classify this -- sheer silliness or unmitigated cheek?

Wide Angle
A burly young man with a large, squarish head, paced up and down the spaces leading to the living room, blurting into his cellular phone one constant message: "His legal position is very weak; he is a sacked general".