Imaginary fear
If public opinion in India has been unsparing in its criticism of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi for his suggestion to partition Sri Lanka to end the ethnic conflict there, it is because there are not many takers for the two-nation theory in this country.



Loopy futures
So, are we witnessing the emerging structure of another scientific revolution? In a tantalising preview into the possibility of shattering one of the gospels of modern science, Lijun Wang of Princeton University claims to have accelerated light pulses by a factor of 300. Phew. How do we react?



Taking the soft option
There has never been a more immoral, politically biased and economically unsound decision than the one reducing subsidies on food intended for India's 300 million poor people. It is a hard decision, the prime inister and the finance minister say repeatedly.



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