Meeting Musharraf will make PM's US trip more worthwhile
Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's state visit to the US in September is expected to be a low-key affair; ``more ceremony than substance'' one Washington report said. No matter. He can do serious business anyway during the rest of his 12-day US yatra.



Blowing the whistle on the moral police
Moral issues are always far more comfortable to espouse and get agitated over than real issues. That's why you find sundry individuals and organisations rushing to impose their own dress codes on the unsuspecting.



National security, what's that?
After the nation had been hurriedly dressed up for a prime-time demonstration of emotion for the heroes of Kargil, national security expert K. Subrahmanyam questioned the sincerity of the political class to the cause of national security.



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