The Sonia Bill
The private member's Bill moved by a BJP MP in the Lok Sabha to debar naturalised citizens from holding the posts of president, vice-president and prime minister does not do the party proud.



Cyber consecration
The silly millennial season is upon us. As time present merges with time past in this cusp between two millennia, names fly about through cyber space as the whole world is enjoined to name the men and women who have inspired them and come to represent the spirit of the age.



The great Japanese hypocrisy
When Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh visited Japan last month, Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi urged India to sign the global nuclear test ban treaty, -- so as to remove, he said, a lingering thorn in the side of Indo-Japanese relations.



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