Courting prevarication
If earlier the Supreme Court had promised to give l'affaire Veerappan a decisive turn, its latest intervention on the matter betrays a remarkable lack of urgency.



Son rise, son set
Bizarre. That in a word describes the situation in Tamil Nadu, where the supporters of one son of Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi, are on the rampage over the ascension of another.



The bells of Guruvayoor
The other day Justice K.T. Thomas of the Supreme Court told me how a few years ago when he was a judge of the Kerala HC, he and his wife were profusely welcomed into the Kashi Vishwanath temple by the head priest, who knew they were Syrian Christians.



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