Tell all, Mr Vajpayee
Prime Minister intends to reveal all about Kargil in due course. But there is a strong political-bureaucratic tendency in this country to withhold information from the public. Lest bad advice prevail it is worth spelling out why the government should break with tradition.



As welcome as ever
Under what circumstances and in what manner the boy Lama fled his monastery home in Tibet and reached Dharamsala a distance of 900 km over mountainous terrain remain a mystery but the import of the development cannot be overlooked.



Time to protect the citizen
It is just amazing that the government can even think of keeping the report of the Subrahmanyam Committee, which was set up to probe intelligence failure preceding the intrusions into Kargil, away from public gaze.



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