Objections overruled
The many crises India faces and has faced in the post-Nehru era are traceable to a single fact: it has had several politicians, but very few statesmen.



Gujarat doesn't show the way
The main point of the controversy over the Keshubhai Patel ministry order allowing government servants to associate with the RSS has got buried.



Beyond redemption
Given the fractured verdict in Bihar, Governor Vinod Chandra Pande was in an unenviable position. Any decision by him on the leadership question would have been contentious.



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